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| 2 | Feminist Leader Suddenly Concern About Males. She's Wants To Be POTUS, Yet Does Not Have Their Vote. "Democrats are hemorrhaging [male] voters and need to figure out how to stop the bleeding."2012 Benghazi attack: The 2012 Benghazi attack took place on the evening of September 11, 2012, when Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith. Stevens was the first U.S. Ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979. The attack has also been referred to as the Battle of Benghazi. Several hours later, a second assault targeted a different comp… | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 07:49 PM |
| 1 | Great video from Brian Earp: "Female Genital Mutilation and Male Circumcision - Don't Compare Them?"Freedom of religion in the United States: In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally protected right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Freedom of religion is also closely associated with separation of church and state, a concept advocated by Colonial founders such as Roger Williams, William Penn and later founding fathers such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Image i - Monument honoring the right to worship, Washington, D.C. Relevant: Virginia St… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/15 10:46 AM |
| 2 | Yeah we definitely have a SJW down vote brigade problemSection 5. Gluttony of article Seven deadly sins: Gluttony (Latin, gula) is the overindulgence and overconsumption of anything to the point of waste. The word derives from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow, In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy. Because of these scripts, gluttony can be interpreted as selfishness; essentially placing concern with one's own interests above the well-being or interests of o… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/15 08:00 AM |
| 1 | 18 year old who went on crime spree that got deputy killed says she was just a terrified girl manipulated by an older man. Jury denies pass, guilty of murder.Felony murder rule: The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder in two ways. First, when an offender kills (regardless of accidentally or without specific intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated felony, he/she is guilty of murder. Second, it makes any participant in such a felony criminally liable for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony. In short, deaths that occur in the commiss… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 10/07/15 06:12 AM |
| 2 | Boys more likely than girls to receive anti-psychotic drugs: Despite the percentage of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, most do not have a psychotic disorderAtypical antipsychotic: The atypical antipsychotics (AAP; also known as second generation antipsychotics (SGAs)) are a group of antipsychotic drugs (antipsychotic drugs in general are also known as major tranquilisers and neuroleptics, although the latter is usually reserved for the typical antipsychotics) used to treat psychiatric conditions. Some atypical antipsychotics have received regulatory approval (e.g. by the FDA of the US, the TGA of Australia, the MHRA of the UK) for schizophrenia, bi… | /r/MensRights | 09/07/15 11:41 AM |
| 1 | 18 year old who went on crime spree that got deputy killed says she was just a terrified girl manipulated by an older man. Jury denies pass, guilty of murder.Kids for cash scandal: The "kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit youth centers for the detention of juveniles, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles brought before their courts t… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/07/15 03:03 AM |
| 3 | The top female model made $42 million last year while the top male model only made $1.5 million. Its time to close this wage gap! /sarcasmSection 17. Broadcasting and promotion of article FIFA World Cup: The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 World Cup is estimated to be 26.29 billion. 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams int… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/15 08:42 PM |
| 1 | Two people are on a date and walking down the street. Person A, feeling romantically and sexually attracted, timidly reaches out to hold B’s hand and feels a thrill as their hands touch. Person B does nothing, but six months later files a criminal complaint. A is guilty of ‘Criminal Sexual Contact’.Rape by deception: Rape by deception is a crime in which the perpetrator has the victim's sexual consent and compliance, but gains it through deception or fraudulent statements or actions. The media may also refer to this type of rape as "rape by fraud", "rape by impersonation" or "rape by trickery" [citation needed]. Relevant: Types of rape | Rape in Saudi Arabia | Rape in Afghanistan | Rape in Germany Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. … | /r/MensRights | 08/07/15 05:47 AM |
| 1 | Sarah Jessica Parker says she’s a humanist, not a feministHumanism: Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith (fideism). The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated, according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it. Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and pro… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/15 03:15 AM |
| 1 | The domestic violence double standard of Hope Solo, the goalkeeper of the USA's women's football team.Deposition (law): In the law of the United States, a deposition is the out-of-court oral testimony of a witness that is reduced to writing for later use in court or for discovery purposes. It is commonly used in litigation in the United States and Canada, where it is called examination for discovery, and is almost always conducted outside of court by the lawyers themselves (that is, the judge is not present to supervise the examination). In other countries, testimony is usually preserved for fut… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 03:37 AM |
| 3 | What do women mean when they say "I want a man who will put me in my place"?Section 4. Enmeshed romantic relationship of article Codependency: In a codependent relationship, the codependent's sense of purpose is based on making extreme sacrifices to satisfy their partner's needs. Codependent relationships signify a degree of unhealthy clinginess, where one person doesn't have self-sufficiency or autonomy. One or both parties depend on their loved one for fulfillment. There is almost always an unconscious reason for continuing to put another person’s life ahead of your o… | /r/askTRP | 06/07/15 01:14 PM |
| 1 | Fitbit proves woman lied about a sexual assault, The Young Turks are outraged fitbit can be used in court.Right to be forgotten: The right to be forgotten is a concept discussed and put into practice in the European Union (EU) and Argentina since 2006. The issue has arisen from desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past." :231 There has been controversy about the practicality of establishing a right to be forgotten to the status of an interna… | /r/MensRights | 06/07/15 04:15 AM |
| 3 | SFGate claims sexism against women a reason for the lack of interest in sex from both genders in Japan.Section 2. Briffault's Law of article Robert Briffault: Briffault is known for what is called Briffault's Law: The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place. — Robert Briffault, The Mothers, Vol. I, p. 191 Relevant: Islam and science | The First Sex | Philosopher's stone | Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s Parent comme… | /r/MensRights | 06/07/15 01:32 AM |
| 1 | "When Times Are Tough, Parents Favor Daughters over Sons" (June 29) "Those led to believe tough economic times were ahead, allocated nearly 60% of their available resources to the girl" (nearly 50/50 split otherwise)Section 1. United States of article Child-selling: Georgia Tann, of Memphis, Tenn., was employed by the Tennessee Children's Home Society. According to reporter Barbara Bisantz Raymond, Tann, in 1924–1950, stole many children and sold 5,000 children, most or all of them white. The children were adopted by families in exchange for substantial fees (ostensibly for transport and hotel but Tann charged multiple times for a single trip and collected the money personally rather than through the Tennes… | /r/MensRights | 05/07/15 07:31 PM |
| 1 | Fitbit proves woman lied about a sexual assault, The Young Turks are outraged fitbit can be used in court.Blackstone's formulation: In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", ...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. Image i Relevant: False positives and false negatives | Presumption of innocence Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also… | /r/MensRights | 05/07/15 10:47 AM |
| 1 | "Predator" teacher Jennifer Fichter gets 22 years in prison for sex with three 17 year-old male studentsPederasty in ancient Greece: Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged erotic relationship between an adult male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens. It was characteristic of the Archaic and Classical periods. The influence of pederasty on Greek culture of these periods was so pervasive that it has been called "the principal cultural model for free relationships between citizens." Some scholars locate its origin in initiation ritual, particularly ri… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/15 11:55 AM |
| 1 | Why do feminists want to take us back to the dark days of the past?Political lesbianism: Political lesbianism is a phenomenon within feminism, primarily second-wave feminism and radical feminism; it includes, but is not limited to, lesbian separatism. Political lesbianism embraces the theory that sexual orientation is a political and feminist choice, and advocates lesbianism as a positive alternative to heterosexuality for women as part of the struggle against sexism. Relevant: The Feminists | List of ecofeminist authors | Feminism in Taiwan | Ti-Grace Atkinson… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/15 07:46 AM |
| 1 | She wants a dominant man: ImplicationsBen Franklin effect: The Ben Franklin effect is a proposed psychological phenomenon: A person who has done or completed a favor for someone is more likely to do another favor for that person than they would be if they had received a favor from that person. Similarly, one who harms another is more willing to harm them again than the victim is to retaliate. Image i - The eponym of the effect, Benjamin Franklin Relevant: Associators | Benjamin Franklin National Memorial | Benjamin Franklin (2002 fi… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 03/07/15 08:05 PM |
| 2 | Female gets angry when confronted on illegally parking in a handicap spot.Women are wonderful effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward women as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both men and women participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to women (men are also viewed positively, though not… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 02/07/15 12:02 PM |
| 1 | Someone said Quora was full of BP/feministsMothra: Mothra (モスラ, Mosura ?) is a kaiju who first appeared in Toho's 1961 film Mothra. Mothra has appeared in several Toho tokusatsu films, most often as a recurring character in the Godzilla franchise. [1] Image i Relevant: Rebirth of Mothra III | Godzilla vs. Mothra | Rebirth of Mothra II | Rebirth of Mothra Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Call Me | /r/MGTOW | 01/07/15 10:52 PM |
| 1 | Suspend Hope Solo ImmediatelyRough music: Rough music, also known as ran-tan or ran-tanning, is an English folk custom, a practice in which a raucous punishment is dramatically enacted to humiliate one or more people who have violated, in a domestic or public context, standards commonly upheld within the community. Frequent during the 18th and 19th centuries and probably earlier, it survived into the 20th century in a few places, such as Rampton, Nottinghamshire (1909), Middleton Cheney (1909) and Blisworth (1920s and 1936)… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/15 02:58 PM |
| 2 | Where Are All These Abused Men?Dark triad: The dark triad is a group of three personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Use of the term "dark" implies that these traits have malevolent qualities: Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, pride, egotism, and a lack of empathy. Machiavellianism is characterized by manipulation and exploitation of others; a cynical disregard for morality, and a focus on self-interest and deception. Psychopathy is characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, impulsivit… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/15 02:32 PM |
| 1 | The Future of Sex is TerrifyingDuluth model: The Duluth Model or Domestic Abuse Intervention Project is a program developed to reduce domestic violence against women. It is named after Duluth, Minnesota, the city where it was developed. The program was largely founded by Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar. As of 2006 [update], the Duluth Model is the most common batterer intervention program used in the United States. It is based in feminist theory positing that "domestic violence is the result of patriarchal ideology in which me… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/15 11:25 AM |
| 2 | Carla Howe reveals she punched Ashley Cole for affair with model sister MelissaCheryl Cole: Cheryl Ann Fernandez-Versini (née Tweedy, formerly Cole; born 30 June 1983) is an English recording artist, dancer, and television personality who is known by the mononym Cheryl in the context of her recording promotions. She rose to fame in late 2002 when she auditioned for the reality television show Popstars: The Rivals on ITV. The programme announced that Cole had won a place as a member of the girl group Girls Aloud. The group's line-up remained the same throughout their histor… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/15 04:28 AM |
| 2 | Feminists want men to kill themselves en masse or otherwise get slaughtered; The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race.Mary Daly: Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010 ) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Daly retired in 1999, after violating university policy by refusing to allow male students in her advanced women's studies classes. She allowed male students in her introductory class and privately tutored those who wanted to take advanced classes. Image i R… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/15 01:01 AM |
| 2 | Please tell me fart rape isn't real. This can't be real.Susan Brownmiller: Susan Brownmiller (born 15 February 1935) is an American feminist journalist, author, and activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Brownmiller argues that rape had been previously defined by men rather than women, and that men use, and all men benefit from the use of rape as a means of perpetuating male dominance by keeping all women in a state of fear. In 1995, the New York Public Library selected Against Our Will as one of 100 most import… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/15 02:02 PM |
| 2 | The myth that women invented farmingNormative science: In the applied sciences, normative science is a type of information that is developed, presented, or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular policy or class of policies. Regular or traditional science does not presuppose a policy preference, but normative science, by definition, does. Common examples of such policy preferences are arguments that pristine ecosystems are preferable to human altered ones, that native species are preferable t… | /r/MGTOW | 30/06/15 03:02 AM |
| 2 | The myth that women invented farmingJethro Tull (agriculturist): Jethro Tull (1674 – 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows. He later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull's methods were adopted by many great land owners and helped to provide the basis for modern agriculture. This revolutionized the future of agricultural success. The 1970's pr… | /r/MGTOW | 29/06/15 09:30 PM |
| 1 | Gay marriage is legal now. Why the fuck have people been fighting to get this approved? This is sickening.Marriage privatization: Marriage privatization is the concept that the state should have no authority to define the terms of personal relationships such as marriage. Proponents of marriage privatization, including certain minarchists, anarchists, libertarians, and opponents of government interventionism, claim that such relationships are best defined by private individuals and not the state. Arguments for the privatization of marriage have been offered by a number of scholars and writers. Propon… | /r/MGTOW | 29/06/15 01:32 PM |
| 1 | "Alpha" / TRP endorsed films/television shows?Group dynamics: Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (intragroup dynamics), or between social groups (intergroup dynamics). The study of group dynamics can be useful in understanding decision-making behavior, tracking the spread of diseases in society, creating effective therapy techniques, and following the emergence and popularity of new ideas and technologies. Group dynamics are at the core of understanding racism, sexism, and oth… | /r/askTRP | 29/06/15 03:44 AM |
| 1 | The post that just got me banned from /r/feminismSevier Lake: Sevier Lake /sɛˈvɪər/ is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by the Beaver and Sevier rivers, and the additional inflow is from the lakes watershed that is part of the Escalante-Sevier hydrologic subregion. The lake has been mostly dry throughout recorded history and is a source of wind-blown dust in… | /r/MGTOW | 29/06/15 01:56 AM |
| 1 | Blaming the Victim - Woman Against Paternity FraudPaternity fraud: Paternity fraud occurs when a mother names a man to be the biological father of a child, when she knows or suspects that he is not the biological father. Paternity fraud is a criminal offence in the UK and certain states of the US. [citation needed] A mother is permitted to not state the name of the biological father if she does not know it. Paternity fraud is a form of misattributed paternity. The term entered into common use in the late 1990s. It has been given significant cov… | /r/MensRights | 29/06/15 01:21 AM |
| 1 | 9yo girl induces 12yo brother to do some "sexing". Police advice? Press charges against the son.Age of criminal responsibility in Australia: The age of criminal responsibility in Australia is the age below which a child is deemed incapable of having committed a criminal offence. In legal terms, it is referred to as a defense of infancy. All States of Australia have adopted a uniform age of criminal responsibility. Doli incapax refers to a presumption that a child is "incapable of crime" under legislation or common law. Or rather, the presumption that a child cannot form mens rea as they do… | /r/MensRights | 28/06/15 11:23 PM |
| 1 | A new movie coming out, about TRUE feminist and their REAL struggle for equality.White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather i… | /r/MensRights | 28/06/15 07:01 AM |
| 3 | Linda Ann Jenns who claimed she was too fat for prison is jailed for 2 yearsLong ton: Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or weight ton, [citation needed] is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements standardised in the thirteenth century that is used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries alongside the French metrication invented in 1799. One long ton is equal to 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg), 12% larger than a short ton and 1.6% larger than the 1,000-kilogram (2,205 lb) tonne, or 35 cubic feet (… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 27/06/15 07:19 AM |
| 1 | My High School teaches the girls self defense while teaching the boys how to cartwheel...Section 4. Female of article Groin attack: Contrary to depictions in popular culture (in which females are no more vulnerable in their groin than anywhere else), a strike or squeeze to the vulva or clitoris and ovaries will cause considerable pain and can incapacitate females due to the high amount of nerve endings in these structures. The pain associated with a trauma to the clitoris travels through the pudendal nerve and travels through the ovarian plexus for a trauma to the ovaries. In extrem… | /r/MensRights | 27/06/15 05:20 AM |
| 1 | What can we learn from feminism?Rape crisis center: Rape crisis centers (RCCs) are community-based organizations affiliated with the anti-rape movement that work to help victims of rape, sexual abuse, and sexual violence. Central to a community’s rape response, RCCs provide a number of services, such as victim advocacy, crisis hotlines, community outreach, and education programs. As social movement organizations, they seek to change social beliefs and institutions, particularly in terms of how rape is understood by medical and… | /r/MensRights | 27/06/15 02:12 AM |
| 2 | I want to explain the effect of the Red Pill to my ex and apologise, to heal our friendship. I don't know how to go about it. (Lengthy post)Social Darwinism: Social Darwinism is a modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, and which are claimed to have applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. Social Darwinists generally argue that the strong should see their wealth and power increase while the weak should see their wealth and power decrease. Different social Darwinists have differen… | /r/ExRedPill | 26/06/15 02:54 AM |
| 1 | "What If We Treated All Consent Like Society Treats Sexual Consent?"R v JA: R v JA 2011 SCC 28 is a criminal law decision of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding consent in cases of sexual assaults. The court found that a person can only consent to sexual activity if they are conscious throughout that activity. If a person becomes unconscious during the sexual activity, then they legally cannot consent, whether or not they consented earlier. In addition to the two parties (J.A. and the Attorney General of Ontario), the Court heard from two interveners: the Atto… | /r/MensRights | 25/06/15 07:53 PM |
| 2 | Owning the Positive Attitude DailyEgo depletion: Ego depletion refers to the idea that self-control or willpower draw upon a limited pool of mental resources that can be used up. When the energy for mental activity is low, self-control is typically impaired, which would be considered a state of ego depletion. In particular, experiencing a state of ego depletion impairs the ability to control oneself later on. A depleting task requiring self-control can have a hindering effect on a subsequent self-control task, even if the tasks … | /r/MarriedRedPill | 25/06/15 05:38 PM |
| 2 | I'm in an Abusive Relationship and can't get out.Stockholm syndrome: Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that … | /r/MensRights | 25/06/15 12:31 AM |
| 1 | Feminists are lonely and crave a boyfriend. They created this conflict not through their demands for equality which most support but from the accompanying male hate.J. D. Unwin: Joseph Daniel Unwin MC (1895 — 1936) was a British ethnologist and social anthropologist at Oxford University and Cambridge University. <sup>Relevant:</sup> <sup>Sexual</sup> <sup>abstinence</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Shenzhoupterus <sup>|</sup> <sup>List</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>Derbyshire</sup> <sup>County</sup> <sup>Cricket</sup> <sup>Club</sup> <sup>players <sup>|</sup> <sup>List</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>pterosaur</sup> <sup>genera <sup>Parent</sup> <sup>commenter</sup> <sup>can</s… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/15 02:00 PM |
| 1 | Hey guys! AMA 2, Electric Boogaloo: I'm a FTM transman who is happy to answer questions on the difference in experiencing life as male versus female.David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/15 09:56 AM |
| 1 | This is why they tell you to stay away from single mothersBrown v. Board of Education: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated tha… | /r/MGTOW | 24/06/15 05:40 AM |
| 3 | I have seen people claim that the idea that any man who interacts with a child is instantly seen as suspicious is something people just imagine, well it happened to me, here on reddit!Rind et al. controversy: The Rind et al. controversy was a debate in the scientific literature, public media, and government legislatures in the United States regarding a 1998 peer reviewed meta-analysis of the self-reported harm caused by child sexual abuse (CSA). The debate resulted in the unprecedented condemnation of the paper by both Houses of the United States Congress. The social science research community was concerned that the condemnation by government legislatures might have a chillin… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/15 01:10 AM |
| 1 | How does one achieve an excellent level of self discipline?Bruce Lee: Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍; born Lee Jun-fan, Chinese: 李振藩; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong American martial artist, Hong Kong action film actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, filmmaker, and the founder of Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. H… | /r/askTRP | 23/06/15 09:25 PM |
| 1 | What protects famous Chad Thundercocks from ONSs that have their children?Section 9. Personal life of article Boris Becker: Becker lives in Schwyz, Switzerland. He is a fan of German football club Bayern Munich and serves on its advisory board alongside former Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber. In addition to Munich, Monaco, and Schwyz, Becker has an apartment in London, in or near Wimbledon, and possibly still maintains a residence in Miami, to be near his children. Becker is not related to fellow German professional tennis players Benjamin Becker or Richard Becker. Re… | /r/askTRP | 23/06/15 10:07 AM |
| 2 | 44% of Men vs. 37% of Women have experienced online harassment - Pew Research“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward women as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both men and women participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to women (men are also viewed positively, though n… | /r/MensRights | 23/06/15 07:05 AM |
| 2 | Hey guys! AMA 2, Electric Boogaloo: I'm a FTM transman who is happy to answer questions on the difference in experiencing life as male versus female.Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) is a condition that results in the complete inability of the cell to respond to androgens. The unresponsiveness of the cell to the presence of androgenic hormones prevents the masculinization of male genitalia in the developing fetus, as well as the development of male secondary sexual characteristics at puberty, but does not significantly impair female genital or sexual development. As such, the insensitiv… | /r/MensRights | 23/06/15 06:14 AM |
| 1 | Coming To Terms With Reality Extended CutEquanimity: Equanimity (Latin: æquanimitas having an even mind; aequus even animus mind/soul) is a state of psychological stability and composure which is undisturbed by experience of or exposure to emotions, pain, or other phenomena that may cause others to lose the balance of their mind. The virtue and value of equanimity is extolled and advocated by a number of major religions and ancient philosophies. Relevant: Upekkha | Book of Equanimity | Seven Factors of Enlightenment | Brahmavihara Pare… | /r/MGTOW | 22/06/15 09:34 PM |
| 1 | There's No Such Thing...Myers–Briggs Type Indicator: The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The questionnaire was created by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers based on an extrapolation from the typological theories proposed by Carl Gustav Jung's 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923 ). Jung had theorized that there are four principal psychological funct… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 21/06/15 07:21 PM |
| 1 | Fionola Meredith: The shaming of Nobel laureate Tim Hunt is no feminist triumphCyclin: Cyclins are a family of proteins that control the progression of cells through the cell cycle by activating cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) enzymes. Image i Relevant: Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein | Cyclin-dependent kinase | Cyclin E | Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Call Me | /r/MensRights | 21/06/15 04:09 PM |
| 1 | Is the Men's rights movement anti-feminism? [Serious]Matt Dubay child support case: Matt Dubay child support case was a legal case between Matt Dubay and his ex-girlfriend, both of Saginaw Township, Michigan. The case was dubbed "Roe v. Wade for Men" by the National Center for Men. The case concerned whether the Michigan Paternity Act violates the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, in that the Act allegedly applies to men but not to women. [citation needed] Relevant: Timeline of feminism in the United States | ACBL King or Queen… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/15 06:12 PM |
| 1 | This is a pathetic statement, and I have no right to say this: I am bored.Gordian Knot: The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (disentangling an "impossible" knot) solved easily by cheating or "thinking outside the box" ("cutting the Gordian knot"): "Turn him to any cause of policy, Image i - Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, by Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1743–1811) Relevant: Gordian Knot (album) | Gordian Knot (band) | Watchmen Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delet… | /r/askTRP | 20/06/15 04:05 PM |
| 1 | Feminist demands a black, LGBT, or female James Bond regardless of qualificationSection 5. Casting of article Alien %28film%29: Casting calls and auditions for Alien were held in both New York and London. With only seven human characters in the story, Scott sought to hire strong actors so he could focus most of his energy on the film's visual style. He employed casting director Mary Selway, who had worked with him on The Duellists, to head the casting in the United Kingdom, while Mary Goldberg handled casting in the United States. In developing the story O'Bannon had focuse… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/15 09:21 AM |
| 1 | Is the Men's rights movement anti-feminism? [Serious]Duluth model: The Duluth Model or Domestic Abuse Intervention Project is a program developed to reduce domestic violence against women. It is named after Duluth, Minnesota, the city where it was developed. The program was largely founded by Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar. As of 2006 [update], the Duluth Model is the most common batterer intervention program used in the United States. It is based in feminist theory positing that "domestic violence is the result of patriarchal ideology in which me… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/15 08:23 AM |
| 1 | He's old enough to cook he's old enough to get rapedSection 45. History 2 of article Ages of consent in North America: While the age of consent is now set between 16 and 18 in all U.S. states, the age of consent has widely varied across the country in the past. In 1880, the age of consent was set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7. The ages of consent were raised across the U.S. during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Until a few decades ago, many states used to have provisions requiring tha… | /r/MensRights | 19/06/15 03:59 PM |
| 1 | How many men were destroyed by this liar? Chemist Pleads Guilty In Massachusetts Crime Lab ScandalNils Christie: Nils Christie (24 February 1928 – 27 May 2015) was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1966. Among his books is Pinens begrensning from 1981, which has been translated into eleven languages. He received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen. Christie is well known for his long standing criticism of drug prohibition, industrial society, and prisons. He was a member of the Norwegian … | /r/MensRights | 19/06/15 12:16 AM |
| 3 | The male Pill is coming - and it's going to change everything. New forms of male contraception are estimated to hit the market in two years and - unlike women's options - most won't contain hormones.Decimal mark: A decimal mark is a symbol used to separate the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form. Different countries officially designate different symbols for the decimal mark. The choice of symbol for the decimal mark also affects the choice of symbol for the thousands separator used in digit grouping, so the latter is also treated in this article. In mathematics the decimal mark is a type of radix point, a term that also applies to number systems with b… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 10:42 PM |
| 1 | The male Pill is coming - and it's going to change everything. New forms of male contraception are estimated to hit the market in two years and - unlike women's options - most won't contain hormones.Argument from fallacy: Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), fallacy fallacy, fallacist's fallacy, and bad reasons fallacy. Fallacious arguments can arrive at true conclusions, so this is an informal fallacy of relevance. <sup>Relevant:</sup> <sup>Appeal</sup> <sup>to</sup> <sup>pity</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>God</sup> <sup>of</s… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 10:28 PM |
| 2 | The male Pill is coming - and it's going to change everything. New forms of male contraception are estimated to hit the market in two years and - unlike women's options - most won't contain hormones.No true Scotsman: No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"). <sup>Rele… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 08:18 PM |
| 20 | How many men were destroyed by this liar? Chemist Pleads Guilty In Massachusetts Crime Lab ScandalJoyce Gilchrist: Joyce Gilchrist is a former forensic chemist who had participated in over 3,000 criminal cases in 21 years while working for the Oklahoma City police department, and who was accused of falsifying evidence. Her evidence led in part to 23 people being sentenced to death, 11 of whom have been executed. After her dismissal, Gilchrist alleged that she was fired in retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct. Relevant: Beatrice Six | Death and Justice | Gilchrist | Rod Blum Parent com… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 05:01 PM |
| 2 | Man and woman guilty of same criminal offense, reported on same news website, bud dramatically different headlines.“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward women as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both men and women participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to women (men are also viewed positively, though n… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 09:31 AM |
| 3 | AskTRP,help me exact my revenge on the girl that nearly destroyed me twice.Psychological projection: Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against unpleasant impulses by denying their existence in themselves, while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.According to some research, the projection of one's negative qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life. Image i Relevant: False accusation | Projection bias | Projective identification … | /r/askTRP | 18/06/15 02:44 AM |
| 1 | Amanda Lindhout - Patron Saint of StupidAmanda Lindhout: Amanda Lindhout (born June 12, 1981) is a Canadian humanitarian and journalist. On August 23, 2008, she and members of her entourage were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia. She was released 15 months later on November 25, 2009, and has since embarked on a philanthropic career. In 2013, she released the New York Times bestseller A House in the Sky: A Memoir, in which she recounts her early life, travels as a young adult, and hostage experience. In 2014, the boo… | /r/PussyPass | 17/06/15 02:40 PM |
| 1 | Another reason to go MGTOW: Invasion of the Land WhalesCaptain Ahab: Captain Ahab is a fictional character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is arguably the main antagonist and the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, leaving him with a prosthesis made out of whalebone. Instead of leading the Pequod on a whaling voyage for profit, Ahab seeks revenge on the whale and casts his spell over the crew-members to enlist them in his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is f… | /r/MGTOW | 17/06/15 01:34 AM |
| 2 | What is love?Greek words for love: The Greek language distinguishes at least four different ways as to how the word love is used. Ancient Greek has four distinct words for love: agápe, éros, philía, and storgē. However, as with other languages, it has been historically difficult to separate the meanings of these words when used outside of their respective contexts. Nonetheless, the senses in which these words were generally used are as follows: Agápe (ἀγάπη agápē ) means "love: esp. brotherly love, charity; … | /r/askTRP | 15/06/15 12:10 PM |
| 1 | Hypocrisy of UCL [University College London] who sacked Tim Hunt for "sexist" remarks. They have research collaboration, student placements & staff exchanges with King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia — which has separate campuses for men & women!King Abdulaziz University: King Abdulaziz University (KAU) (Arabic: جامعة الملك عبد العزيز ǧāmiʿat al-malik ʿabd al-ʿazīz) was founded in 1967 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Designed by English architect John Elliott, it had 2,000 faculty and more than 37,000 students in 2000/2001. Established initially as a private university by a group of businessmen led by Sheikh Muhammad Abu Bakr Bakhashab Pasha and including the writer Hamza Bogary. in 1974 King Abdulaziz University was converted to a public uni… | /r/MensRights | 14/06/15 08:58 PM |
| 2 | My university dorms allow you to request all-female dorms, but not all-male dorms. How do they do this and not realise?Ingsoc: Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism or the English Socialist Party) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Image i Relevant: Newspeak | Inner Party | Nineteen Eighty-Four | O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Call Me | /r/MensRights | 14/06/15 07:15 PM |
| 1 | Ellen Pao to appeal against sexism trial defeat (Re-upload, previous submission got deleted.)Buddy Fletcher: Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher, Jr. (born December 19, 1965) is a former hedge fund manager and founder of the Fletcher Foundation. His fund is in bankruptcy, and he is accused of civil fraud. He began his career as a quantitative equity trader at Bear Stearns and later worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Fletcher, who is African American, sued Kidder Peabody for racial discrimination. Although his racial discrimination claims were dismissed, he eventually won an arbitration award of US$1… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/06/15 07:06 PM |
| 4 | Woman kills sleeping husbandSection 5. Verdict of article Mary Winkler: On April 19, 2007, the jury came back with the verdict: guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Prosecutors had asked that Winkler be convicted of first-degree murder, but the jury settled on the lesser charge after deliberating for eight hours. Relevant: Matthew Winkler (minister) | The Pastor's Wife (film) | Winkler (surname) | WTVF-DT2 Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Call Me | /r/MensRights | 14/06/15 04:43 PM |
| 2 | Would you be a MGTOW if porn didn't exist?ASCII porn: The term ASCII porn –sometimes typographically euphemized as "ASCII pr0n" – describes pornographic images consisting of ASCII art. ASCII porn was the world's first Internet pornography, and was popular (among the then fewer computer users) before the invention of the World-Wide Web, and often found on BBSes and other text mode terminal-based systems that could be reached via direct modem dial-up. It was also exchanged via Fidonet and sneakernet and on the early Internet using pre-WWW… | /r/MGTOW | 14/06/15 02:55 AM |
| 3 | Bogus assumptions about men being born without masculinity.David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 14/06/15 02:48 AM |
| 2 | As many MGTOW live peaceful lives, do you attend crowded shows like sporting events/concerts, or just watch sports/listen to music by yourself?Hikikomori: Hikikomori (ひきこもり or 引き籠もり, Hikikomori ?, literally "pulling inward, being confined", i.e., "acute social withdrawal") is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. The term hikikomori refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to people belonging to this societal group. Hikikomori have been described as recluses, loners, or "modern-day h… | /r/MGTOW | 14/06/15 02:19 AM |
| 1 | 51% of Queens birthday honours go to females. Everyday sexism founder Laura Bates receives a BEM. But the Guardian is still moaning because at the top, 7 women are made Dames; but there are 33 men given Knighthoods.Knight Bachelor: The appointment of Knight Bachelor (Kt) is a part of the British honours system. It is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Orders of Chivalry. Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight (the rank existed during the 13th century reign of King Henry III), but Knights Bachelor rank below knights of the various orders. There is no female counterpart to Knight Bachelor. The lowest k… | /r/MensRights | 13/06/15 08:15 PM |
| 1 | Cenk from TYT speaks out against 'Columbia Mattress Girl'. Stands up for men when the co-host makes the assertion that 'Emma got raped because she said she did'.The Treachery of Images: The Treachery of Images (French: La trahison des images, 1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images) is a painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, painted when Magritte was 30 years old. The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." [sə.si ne paz‿yn pip], French for "This is not a pipe." "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it… | /r/MensRights | 13/06/15 05:37 PM |
| 3 | [1 valid point, the rest is painful to watch] Should the First Mars Mission Be All Women? | PBS Digital StudiosLisa Nowak: Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo) (born May 10, 1963) is an American former naval flight officer and NASA astronaut. Born in Washington, D.C., she was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics. Nowak flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission in July 2006, where she was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. Nowak gained international attention on February 5, 2007, when she was ar… | /r/MGTOW | 13/06/15 01:34 PM |
| 1 | Court gives frozen embryos to Chicago woman over ex-boyfriend's objectionEvans v United Kingdom: Evans v. the United Kingdom was a key case at the European Court of Human Rights. The case outcome could have had a major impact on fertility law, not only within the United Kingdom but also the other Council of Europe countries. Professor John Harris of the University of Manchester told the BBC in September 2002: Relevant: Bright-line rule | List of gender equality lawsuits | European Convention on Human Rights | Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Parent commen… | /r/MensRights | 13/06/15 10:14 AM |
| 1 | Why hasn't the highly upvoted post on /r/videos that shows Lebron James' dick not been removed from reddit yet?Desert (philosophy): Desert /dɨˈzɜrt/ in philosophy is the condition of being deserving of something, whether good or bad. Relevant: Index of ethics articles | Suum cuique | Kelly Oliver Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Call Me | /r/MensRights | 12/06/15 07:42 PM |
| 2 | How to be an "acceptable" man...Poe's law: Poe's law is an internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extremism are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of extremism. Poe's Law implies that parody will often be mistaken for sincere belief, and sincere beliefs for parody. Relevant: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Call Me | /r/MensRights | 12/06/15 07:09 PM |
| 1 | Women and Girls May Be Rising, but Boys Are NotMandarin (bureaucrat): A mandarin (Chinese: 官, guān; Cantonese: gun1; Vietnamese: quan) was a bureaucrat scholar in the government of imperial China. The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system; it sometimes includes and sometimes excludes the eunuchs also involved in the governance of the two realms. Image i - A 15th-century portrait of the Ming official Jiang Shunfu. The cranes on his mandarin square indicate that he was a civil official of … | /r/MensRights | 12/06/15 06:07 PM |
| 1 | If Feminists changed their name to Equalists I would join instantly.Egalitarianism: Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism or equalism —is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people. Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English. It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as… | /r/MensRights | 12/06/15 03:23 PM |
| 3 | I'm on the fence“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward women as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both men and women participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to women (men are also viewed positively, though n… | /r/MGTOW | 12/06/15 05:31 AM |
| 1 | In Wretched Defense of RooshHorseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/AlreadyRed | 12/06/15 12:30 AM |
| 35 | 10 year old boy is being raised as a girl for two years as a “project” so he’ll be a more enlightened adult. The ballet lesson experience was to include dressing him in a pink tutu and calling him Danielle.David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 06:17 PM |
| 1 | Female receptionist at hospital performing forced circumcision of Chase Hironimus — a boy aged 4 — mocks the caller by answering the phone as "Carol Phimosis". Then mocks the caller's husband who is circumcised and belittles her. Receptionist thinks genital mutilation of infant males is funny.David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 06:07 PM |
| 1 | Petition to have Ellen Pao step downMattress Performance (Carry That Weight): Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) was a work of endurance performance art by Emma Sulkowicz, conducted as her senior thesis during the final year of her visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York. Begun in September 2014, the piece involved Sulkowicz carrying a 50-lb mattress – of the kind Columbia uses in its dorms – wherever she went on campus. She said the piece would end when a student she alleges raped her in her dorm r… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 02:40 PM |
| 1 | Just in case this sub gets banned, i've set up a board at 8chn.White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather i… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 02:12 AM |
| 1 | 40yo female school teacher rapes SIX(!!) 11-12yo boys over a 6 month period. Found guilty, later acquitted for "woman can't be held accountable for own actions syndrome", an outcome covered up by disgusting mass media.Issei Sagawa: Issei Sagawa (佐川 一政, Sagawa Issei ?, born April 26, 1949) is a Japanese man who in 1981, while in Paris, murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt. After his release, he became a minor celebrity in Japan and made a living through the public's interest in his crime. Interesting: Too Much Blood | La Folie (song) | 1949 in Japan | Villejuif Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 10:28 PM |
| 1 | Possibly a Guiness record for unashamed feminist hypocrisy: sticky post, "Tell Pride to ban CAFE". Two post further down: "Why are MRAs blaming feminists for Pride CAFE backlash"Michael Laxer: Michael Laxer is a Canadian political activist and the chairperson of the Socialist Party of Ontario. Laxer lives in the Toronto neighbourhood of Long Branch, in Etobicoke, where he and his wife own and operate a used book store, the only independent used bookstore in south Etobicoke. He was a candidate for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2000 federal election in the riding of Scarborough—Agincourt, and for the Ontario NDP during the 2003 provincial election in Scarborough C… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 05:11 AM |
| 1 | Crazy scammer gets maced when she tries to attack the guy busting up her scam.Romani people: The Romani (also spelled Romany; /ˈroʊməni/, /ˈrɒ-/), or Roma, Hindi: रोमानी, are a traditionally itinerant ethnicity living mostly in Europe and the Americas, and ultimately of Northern Indian (and present-day Pakistan) origin. The Romani are widely known among English-speaking people by the exonym "Gypsies" (or Gipsies). Other exonyms are Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians and Sinti. Romani are dispersed, with their concentrated populations in Europe—especially Central and Eastern Eur… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 10/06/15 04:53 AM |
| 1 | Own Your Shit Weekly - June 09, 2015Pomodoro Technique: The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. These intervals are known as "pomodori", the plural of the Italian word pomodoro for "tomato". The method is based on the idea that frequent breaks can improve mental agility. Closely related to concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental de… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 10/06/15 12:48 AM |
| 8 | Is Mattress Girl Editing Her Sex Tape To Dodge A Lawsuit?Small penis rule: The "small penis rule" is an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits. It was described in a New York Times article in 1998: "...For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as 'the small penis rule.' One way authors can protect themselves from libel suits is to say that a character has a small penis, Mr.… | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 09:15 PM |
| 2 | Charlie Baker's petition to give men the right to give up all legal rights and responsibilities to a child if he does not consent to being a father.Safe-haven law: Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state. "Safe-haven" laws typically let parents remain nameless to the court, often using a numbered bracelet system as the only means of linking the baby to the parent. Some states treat safe-haven surrenders … | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 05:40 PM |
| 28 | Women dresses up as a man for 18 months to experience what men go through. Amazing videoDavid Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 12:27 PM |
| 1 | Male Circumcision am I the only person on here not against it.Section 4. Hellenistic and Judaic culture of article History of male circumcision: According to Hodges, ancient Greek aesthetics of the human form considered circumcision a mutilation of a previously perfectly shaped organ. Greek artwork of the period portrayed penises as covered by the foreskin (sometimes in exquisite detail), except in the portrayal of satyrs, lechers, and barbarians. This dislike of the appearance of the circumcised penis led to a decline in the incidence of circumcision amon… | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 11:29 AM |
| 1 | I am doing great weightlifting and eating like a beast. However, I hate my fucking STEM degree and I dread studying it. I have a Midterm soon too, and I don't have access to Adderall right now. Does anyone have any advice?Automaticity: Automaticity /ˌɔːtəməˈtɪsɨti/ is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. It is usually the result of learning, repetition, and practice. Examples of automaticity are common activities such as walking, speaking, bicycle-riding, assembly-line work, and driving a car (see Highway hypnosis). After an activity is sufficiently practiced, it is possible to focus the mind on other… | /r/askTRP | 09/06/15 07:30 AM |
| 3 | Charlie Baker's petition to give men the right to give up all legal rights and responsibilities to a child if he does not consent to being a father.Safe-haven law: Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state. "Safe-haven" laws typically let parents remain nameless to the court, often using a numbered bracelet system as the only means of linking the baby to the parent. Some states treat safe-haven surrenders … | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 05:07 AM |
| 3 | Charlie Baker's petition to give men the right to give up all legal rights and responsibilities to a child if he does not consent to being a father.Safe-haven law: Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state. "Safe-haven" laws typically let parents remain nameless to the court, often using a numbered bracelet system as the only means of linking the baby to the parent. Some states treat safe-haven surrenders … | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 05:05 AM |
| 1 | Feminists Conquer Argentina with Bait and SwitchParental alienation syndrome: Parental alienation syndrome (abbreviated as PAS) is a term coined by Richard A. Gardner in the early 1980s to refer to what he describes as a disorder in which a child, on an ongoing basis, belittles and insults one parent without justification, due to a combination of factors, including indoctrination by the other parent (almost exclusively as part of a child custody dispute) and the child's own attempts to denigrate the target parent. Gardner introduced the term … | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 03:44 AM |
| 1 | Violence does not come naturally to men and boys. The vast majority of people who kill and commit acts of violence are men, but it would be wrong to assume that men are hardwired to harm others.Milgram experiment: The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in grea… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 03:50 PM |
| 1 | Is life worth when you are under 5'9?Kevin Hart: Kevin Darnell Hart (born July 6, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hart began his career by winning several amateur comedy competitions at clubs throughout New England, culminating in his first real break in 2000 when he was cast by Judd Apatow for a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared. The series lasted only one season, but he soon landed other roles in movies like Paper Soldiers (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2… | /r/askTRP | 08/06/15 01:28 PM |
| 1 | Man kidnapped and gang-raped by 3 women. These are the top comments on the Facebook article about it.Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy: "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" is the tenth episode of season 10 and the 149th overall episode of Comedy Central's South Park. It originally aired on October 18, 2006. This episode parodies the TV series Dog the Bounty Hunter. The episode focuses on a situation involving Kyle Broflovski, his little brother, Ike, Eric Cartman, and the kindergarten teacher, Ms. Stevenson. The episode is rated TV-MA on Comedy Central and TV-14 for suggestive dialogue (D), offensive language (L… | /r/MensRights | 07/06/15 11:27 PM |
| 4 | X-post from tumblerinactionWomen's rights in Saudi Arabia: Women's rights in Saudi Arabia are limited in comparison to many of its neighbors. The World Economic Forum 2013 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia 127th out of 136 countries for gender parity. All women, regardless of age, are required to have a male guardian. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. Saudi women constitute 13% of the country's native workforce as of 2015. However, women's status has changed in rec… | /r/MensRights | 07/06/15 09:37 PM |
| 1 | Am I a MGTOW?Useful idiot: In political jargon, useful idiot is a term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause. Despite often being attributed to Vladimir Lenin, in 1987, Grant Harris, senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, declared that "We have not been able to identify this phrase among [Lenin's] published works." In the Russian language, the equivalent term "useful fools" (полезные ду… | /r/MGTOW | 07/06/15 06:11 AM |
| 9 | Emma Sulkowicz reenacts "rape" as "performance art"Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 07/06/15 05:04 AM |
| 6 | Holy cow! This 'journalist' tries to make the case that a 30 yr old woman who was convicted of raping a 15 yr old is the victim!Betteridge's law of headlines: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist. Interesting: Sensationalism | Rhetorical question | List of eponymous laws Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 08:02 PM |
| 2 | Ethics in journalism? UK Guardian manages to 'report' on 'Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol' without once mentioning what Sulkowicz does in the actual video.Corroboration in Scots law: The importance of corroboration is a unique feature of Scots criminal law. A cornerstone of Scots law, the requirement for corroborating evidence means at least two different and independent sources of evidence are required in support of each crucial fact before a defendant can be convicted of a crime. This means, for example, that an admission of guilt by the accused is insufficient evidence to convict in Scotland, because that evidence needs to be corroborated by an… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 06:05 PM |
| 1 | Is there anyway you can tell if a woman is going to age well?Heritability: Heritability is the proportion of observed differences on a trait among individuals of a population that are due to genetic differences. Factors including genetics, environment and random chance can all contribute to the variation between individuals in their observable characteristics (in their "phenotypes"). Heritability thus analyzes the relative contributions of differences in genetic and non-genetic factors to the total phenotypic variance in a population. For instance, some h… | /r/askTRP | 06/06/15 04:34 PM |
| 2 | Women publicly mutilates infant boy's penis for money. Says that the suffering of the baby will "maybe… helps men to be a little more compassionate". Mother says that this grievous sexual assault is an "abhorrent" Bronze Age ritual; but agrees anyway.Section 8. Masturbation concerns of article History of male circumcision: Circumcision in English-speaking countries arose in a climate of negative attitudes towards sex, especially concerning masturbation. In her 1978 article The Ritual of Circumcision, Karen Erickson Paige writes: "The current medical rationale for circumcision developed after the operation was in wide practice. The original reason for the surgical removal of the foreskin, or prepuce, was to control 'masturbatory insanity' – t… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 11:01 PM |
| 1 | You know what got created without ANY help from feminism? Battered women's shelters. Feminism's ONLY contribution was BLOCKING the creation of battered men's shelters.Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 10:37 PM |
| 2 | Emma Sulkowicz made a pornoThe Shape of Things: The Shape of Things is a 2001 play by American author and film director Neil LaBute and a 2003 American romantic drama film. It premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2001 with Paul Rudd as Adam, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn, Gretchen Mol as Jenny, and Fred Weller as Phillip. The play was directed by LaBute himself. According to the author's instructions, it is to be performed without an interval or a curtain call. Central themes in The Shape of Things focus on the nature of … | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 10:51 AM |
| 1 | Good point..Poe's law: Poe's law is an internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extremism are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of extremism. Poe's Law implies that parody will often be mistaken for sincere belief, and sincere beliefs for parody. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 08:00 AM |
| 3 | Women publicly mutilates infant boy's penis for money. Says that the suffering of the baby will "maybe… helps men to be a little more compassionate". Mother says that this grievous sexual assault is an "abhorrent" Bronze Age ritual; but agrees anyway.Section 7. Anesthetic of article Brit milah: Most prominent acharonim rule that the mitzvah of brit milah lies in the pain it causes, and anesthetic, sedation, or ointment should generally not be used. Eliezer Waldenberg, Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, Shmuel Wosner, Moshe Feinstein and others agree that the child should not be sedated, although pain relieving ointment may be used under certain conditions; Shmuel Wosner particularly asserts that the act ought to be painful, as per Psalms 44:23. Regard… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 06:38 AM |
| 1 | MGTOW reading list?Getting Things Done: Getting Things Done is a time-management method, described in a book of the same title by productivity consultant David Allen. It is often referred to as GTD. The GTD method rests on the idea of moving planned tasks and projects out of the mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items. This allows one to focus attention on taking action on tasks, instead of on recalling them. Image i Interesting: David Allen (author) | Lifehacker | OmniF… | /r/MGTOW | 04/06/15 09:40 PM |
| 3 | The continuing collapse of 'The Hunting Ground,' a campus sexual assault propaganda filmA Rape on Campus: "A Rape on Campus" is an article by Sabrina Erdely published in the December 2014 issue of Rolling Stone, which has since been debunked and retracted by the publisher. The article claimed that several members of a fraternity viciously raped a woman, identified only as Jackie, as part of an initiation rite during a chapter house party. After other journalists investigated the article's claims and found significant discrepancies, Rolling Stone issued multiple apologies for the st… | /r/MensRights | 04/06/15 05:41 PM |
| 1 | How do deal with louding by women?Socratic method: Socratic method , also known as method of elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates. It is a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas. It is a dialectical method, often involving a discussion in which the defense of one point of view is questioned; one participant may lead another to contradict themselves in some w… | /r/askTRP | 04/06/15 03:50 PM |
| 2 | Feminist Arrested After Harrassing Group of MenPriapus: For the ancient city in Asia Minor, see Karabiga. In Greek mythology, Priapus (/praɪˈeɪpəs/; Greek: Πρίαπος, Priapos), was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. He became a popular figure in Roman erotic art and Latin literature, and is the subject of the often humorously obscene collection of verse called the Priapeia. Interesti… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 04/06/15 08:03 AM |
| 1 | Another high-profile campus rape accusation falls apart completely. And with it goes all credibility for propagandistic "documentary," The Hunting Ground. When will the media stop abetting these liars?Cluster B personality disorders: Cluster B personality disorders are a categorization of personality disorders as defined in the DSM-IV and DSM-5. There are four recognized Cluster B personality disorders: Antisocial personality disorder (DSM-IV code 301.7): a pervasive disregard for the law and the rights of others. Borderline personality disorder (DSM-IV code 301.83): extreme "black and white" thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior often leading to self-harm … | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 05:48 AM |
| 2 | Got this from my uni; when you see it...Nebraska Initiative 424: The Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative, also known as Initiative 424, was a 2008 ballot measure that proposed a constitutional amendment which would prohibit the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, "any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." The measure, in effect, banned affirmative action at the state level. I… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 05:39 AM |
| 1 | Dealing with crippling social anxietyAttachment disorder: Attachment disorder is a broad term intended to describe disorders of mood, behavior, and social relationships arising from a failure to form normal attachments to primary care giving figures in early childhood. Such a failure would result from unusual early experiences of neglect, abuse, abrupt separation from caregivers between 6 months and three years of age, frequent change or excessive numbers of caregivers, or lack of caregiver responsiveness to child communicative eff… | /r/askTRP | 03/06/15 04:49 AM |
| 7 | Got this from my uni; when you see it...California Proposition 209: Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education. Modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the California Civil Rights Initiative was authored by two California a… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 01:44 AM |
| 1 | Maybe women are just smarter?..Warp-weighted loom: The warp-weighted loom is a simple and ancient form of loom in which the warp yarns hang freely from a bar supported by upright poles which can be placed at a convenient slant against a wall. Bundles of warp threads are tied to hanging weights called loom weights which keep the threads taut. Evidence of the warp-weighted loom appears in the Neolithic period in central Europe. It is depicted in artifacts of Bronze Age Greece and was common throughout Europe, remaining in use i… | /r/MensRights | 02/06/15 07:47 PM |
| 1 | Girlfriend gave her number to another guy in front of meResponsibility assignment matrix: A responsibility assignment matrix (RAM), also known as RACI matrix /ˈreɪsiː/ or ARCI matrix or linear responsibility chart (LRC), describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process. It is especially useful in clarifying roles and responsibilities in cross-functional/departmental projects and processes. RACI and ARCI are acronyms derived from the four key responsibilities most typically used: Respon… | /r/askTRP | 02/06/15 12:50 PM |
| 1 | While we point out when women are being illogical, emotional, and not exercising critical thinking... are any of you devoutly religious?Zen: Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that developed in China during the Tang dynasty as Chán. From China, Zen spread south to Vietnam, northeast to Korea and east to Japan. Zen emphasizes rigorous meditation-practice, insight into Buddha-nature, and the personal expression of this insight in daily life, especially for the benefit of others. As such, it deemphasizes mere knowledge of sutras and doctrine and favors direct understanding through zazen and interaction with an accomplished teache… | /r/askTRP | 01/06/15 09:14 PM |
| 10 | Dad didn't know ex-wife put daughter in foster care. He spent 16 years trying to find her. Ordered to pay $8000 for foster care services.Pain and suffering: Pain and suffering is the legal term for the physical and emotional stress caused from an injury (see also pain and suffering). Some damages that might be under this category would be: aches, temporary and permanent limitations on activity, potential shortening of life, depression or scarring. When filing a lawsuit as a result of an injury, it is common for someone to seek money both in compensation for actual money that is lost and for the pain and stress associated with vir… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 05:32 PM |
| 3 | Why do men resist male advocacy?White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather i… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 03:17 AM |
| 2 | Daily Mail claims acid attacks are normally triggered after women refuse sexual advances or marriage proposals and that women are more likely to be targeted than men. Wrong on both counts!!Section 15. Gender of article Acid throwing: An accurate estimate of the gender ratio of victims and perpetrators is difficult to establish because many acid attacks are not reported or recorded by authorities. According to a study in The Lancet, there are "no reliable statistics" on the prevalence of acid attacks. A 2007 literature review analyzed 24 studies in 13 countries over the past 40 years, covering 771 cases. In the cases studied, men were more frequently victims in every country, with … | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 03:14 AM |
| 2 | Why do Men hate MGTOW?Magnum opus: Magnum opus or opus magnum (English pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnəm ˈoʊpəs/; plural magna opera or opera magna), from the Latin meaning "great work", refers to the largest, and perhaps the best, greatest, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an artist. Sometimes the term magnum opus is used to refer to simply "a great work" rather than "the great work" of a specific person. In popular usage, the English-style plural magnum opuses may also be seen. Some reputable dictionaries such a… | /r/MGTOW | 31/05/15 09:17 PM |
| 2 | Manspreading Protest NYC, Sunday, June 21, 2015Agitprop: Agitprop (/ˈædʒɨtprɒp/; from Russian: агитпроп [ɐɡʲɪtˈprop], derived from agitation and propaganda) is stage plays, pamphlets, motion pictures and other art forms with an explicitly political message. The term agitprop originated in the Russian SFSR (which later joined the Soviet Union), as a shortened form of отдел агитации и пропаганды (otdel agitatsii i propagandy), i.e., Department for Agitation and Propaganda, which was part of the Central and regional committees of the Communist … | /r/MGTOW | 31/05/15 09:05 PM |
| 2 | [FR] Accidental dread became too muchLagertha: Lagertha was, according to legend, a Viking shieldmaiden from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lothbrok. Her tale, as recorded by the chronicler Saxo in the 12th century, may be a reflection of tales about Thorgerd (Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr), a Norse deity. Her name as recorded by Saxo, Lathgertha, is likely a Latinisation of the Old Norse Hlaðgerðr (Hladgerd). It is frequently rendered in English-language sources as "Lagertha", and has also been recorded… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 31/05/15 07:35 PM |
| 2 | The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan - documentary about the widespread culture of male Afghan sex "geishas". I'm sure you never heard about this during all the years of feminist propaganda for war in AfghanistanBacha bazi: Bacha bazi (Dari: بچه بازی , literally "playing with boys" in Dari Persian), also known as bacchá (from Dari bacha بچه "child, young man, calf") or bacha bereesh ("beardless boy"), is a slang term that is commonly used for sexual slavery and child prostitution in which prepubescent and adolescent boys are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment and sexual activities. Bacha bazi has existed throughout history, and the custom is still practiced in Afghanistan and Pakistan. F… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/15 07:18 PM |
| 1 | If you must get married (don't get married), what is the best state to do it in?Covenant marriage: In three states (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana) of the United States, a covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage, in which the marrying couple agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce. Generally, covenant marriage statutes prohibit no-fault divorce. Despite the goals of covenant marriage proponents, in the three states with covenant marriage statutes, only an extremely small minority of newlyweds have c… | /r/askTRP | 30/05/15 04:11 PM |
| 2 | I was denied access to a bike shop becasue I was a male. Am I right to be offended?Canada: Canada is a country, consisting of ten provinces and three territories, in the northern part of the continent of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles) in total, making it the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area. Canada's common border with the United States forms the world's longest land border. The land now cal… | /r/MensRights | 30/05/15 04:06 AM |
| 1 | Power tripping female at workTradesman: A skilled tradesman or tradesman is a manual worker in a particular trade or craft requiring skill (i.e., the skilled trades). Tradesmen are contrasted with unskilled workers (laborers); agricultural workers; and professionals (those in the learned professions). Image i - Carpenter at work with a brace in Tennessee, June 1942 Interesting: Construction worker | Superstar Tradesman | Mechanic | Master craftsman Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment scor… | /r/askTRP | 28/05/15 10:51 PM |
| 1 | The Truth About Male Privilege (I'm on your side, please upvote this, throw away account)Retirement age: This article lists the statutory retirement age in different countries. In some contexts, the retirement age is the age at which a person is expected or required to cease work and is usually the age at which they may be entitled to receive superannuation or other government benefits. Retirement Age varies from a minimum of 45 years in Turkey to 70 years in Australia. Policy makers usually consider the demography, fiscal cost of ageing, health, life expectancy, nature of professio… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/15 08:15 PM |
| 1 | Student 'diversity' officer who banned men from meetings and tweeted #killallwhitemen KEEPS her taxpayer-funded job despite petitions calling for her to be removed.Laws against Holocaust denial: Holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of millions of ethnic minorities in Europe (including Jews) by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, is illegal in 14 European nations. Many countries also have broader laws that criminalize genocide denial. Of the countries that ban Holocaust denial, some, such as Austria, Germany, Hungary, and Romania, were among the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and many of these also ban other elements associated … | /r/MensRights | 28/05/15 03:15 PM |
| 1 | Student 'diversity' officer who banned men from meetings and tweeted #killallwhitemen KEEPS her taxpayer-funded job despite petitions calling for her to be removed.Section 39. United Kingdom of article Freedom of speech by country: United Kingdom citizens have a negative right to freedom of expression under the common law. In 1998, the United Kingdom incorporated the European Convention, and the guarantee of freedom of expression it contains in Article 10, into its domestic law under the Human Rights Act. However there is a broad sweep of exceptions including threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior intending or likely to cause harassment, alarm… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/15 12:38 PM |
| 1 | The day my ex wife got arrested for violating my no contact orderRoman dictator: In the Roman Republic, the dictator (“one who leads”), was an 'extraordinary magistrate' (magistratus extraordinarius) with the absolute authority to perform tasks beyond the authority of the ordinary magistrate (magistratus ordinarius). The office of dictator was a legal innovation originally named Magister Populi (Master of the People), i.e., Master of the Citizen Army. The Roman Senate passed a senatus consultum authorizing the consuls to nominate a dictator — the sole excepti… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/15 07:22 AM |
| 2 | Just a short reminder to be wary of statistics. One statistical "error" which is ignored ever so often (by both sides) is the Simpson's Paradox.Fallacy of division: A fallacy of division occurs when one reasons logically that something true for the whole must also be true of all or some of its parts. An example: A Boeing 747 can fly unaided across the ocean. A Boeing 747 has jet engines. Therefore, one of its jet engines can fly unaided across the ocean. The converse of this fallacy is called fallacy of composition, which arises when one fallaciously attributes a property of some part of a thing to the thing as a whole. Both fallacies w… | /r/MensRights | 27/05/15 11:40 PM |
| 1 | Feminist victory: Nevada extends statute of limitations for sex crimes from four to an astonishing 20 years. Good luck trying to defend yourself after witnesses are dead, records are destroyed, documents and photos faded, physical evidence can no longer be examined or challenged.Day-care sex-abuse hysteria: Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring charges against day-care providers of several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse. A prominent case in Kern County, California, first brought the issue of day-care sexual abuse to the forefront of the public awareness, and the issue figured prominently in news coverage for almost a decade. The Kern County case was followed by cases elsewhere i… | /r/MensRights | 27/05/15 10:18 PM |
| 1 | Prominent member of "Women's Equality" Party "jokes" about male opponent losing a testicle to cancerHitler Has Only Got One Ball: "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" is a British song that mocks Nazi leaders using blue comedy in reference to their testicles. Multiple variants of the lyrics exist, generally sung as four-line verses to the tune of the "Colonel Bogey March". Interesting: Adolf Hitler's possible monorchism | Wine cocktail | Churchill: The Hollywood Years | Colonel Bogey March Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Ma… | /r/MensRights | 27/05/15 09:26 PM |
| 1 | [Serious] Some genuine questionsNot even wrong: The phrase "not even wrong" describes any argument that purports to be scientific but fails at some fundamental level, usually in that it contains a terminal logical fallacy or it cannot be falsified by experiment (i.e. tested with the possibility of being rejected), or cannot be used to make predictions about the natural world. The phrase is generally attributed to theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or sloppy thinking. Ru… | /r/MensRights | 27/05/15 02:50 PM |
| 1 | 29, jobless, living at home -- what to do?Just-world hypothesis: The just-world hypothesis or just-world fallacy is the cognitive bias (or assumption) that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, to the end of all noble actions being eventually rewarded and all evil actions eventually punished. In other words, the just-world hypothesis is the tendency to attribute consequences to—or expect consequences as the result of—a universal force that restores moral balance. This b… | /r/askTRP | 27/05/15 09:05 AM |
| 1 | "Sexual Assault by Deception" Bill Introduced in New Jersey.Microaggression theory: Microaggression is a form of unintended discrimination. It is depicted by the use of known social norms of behavior and/or expression that, while without conscious choice of the user, has the same effect as conscious, intended discrimination. Psychiatrist and Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce coined the word microaggression in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals he said he had regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflict on African Americans. In 1973, … | /r/MensRights | 27/05/15 04:13 AM |
| 1 | Monitor her needs to get better resultsSeasonal affective disorder: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, summer blues, or seasonal depression, is a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV and DSM-5, its status was changed. It is no longer classified as a unique mood disorder but is now a specifi… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 27/05/15 03:41 AM |
| 2 | Genuinely brilliant satire: Why Minecraft is sexist and needs to be bannedPoe's law: Poe's law is an internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extremism are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of extremism. Poe's Law implies that parody will often be mistaken for sincere belief, and sincere beliefs for parody. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 27/05/15 03:13 AM |
| 3 | On eliminating 90% of menSally Miller Gearhart: Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. She has been controversial for her statement that "The proportio… | /r/MensRights | 26/05/15 11:22 PM |
| 1 | Can I get some thoughts on this episode of 'This American Life'? Delves into a 'teach men not to rape' class on campus.Baseball metaphors for sex: Among American adolescents, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships. In the metaphor, first prevalent in the aftermath of World War II, sexual activities are described as if they are actions in a game of baseball. Interesting: Hot Karl (slang) | Bi-curious | Felching Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mod… | /r/MensRights | 26/05/15 09:33 PM |
| 1 | Brooklyn: Middle school teacher says she shouldn't be fired for having sex with 12-year-old student, after jury cleared her of criminal charges.Actual innocence: Actual innocence is a state of affairs in which a defendant in a criminal case is innocent of the charges against them because he or she did not in fact commit the crime of which they have been accused. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>McQuiggin</sup> <sup>v.</sup> <sup>Perkins</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Mistaken</sup> <sup>identity</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Peter</sup> <sup>Neufeld</sup> <sup>Parent</sup> <sup>commenter</sup> <sup>can</sup> [<sup>toggle</sup> <sup>NSFW](/message/compos… | /r/MensRights | 26/05/15 03:48 PM |
| 1 | We are having an impact! Have you signed the petition yet?Commonwealth of Independent States: The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS; Russian: Содружество Независимых Государств, СНГ, tr. Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv, SNG; also called the Russian Commonwealth) [(https://en.wikipedia.org//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States#endnote_a) is a regional organisation whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union. The CIS is a loose association of states. Although the … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 26/05/15 01:44 PM |
| 6 | Racist Lady Calling Man A "Ni**er" Gets Slapped After Spitting In His Face!Stand-your-ground law: In the United States, a stand-your-ground law is a law that authorizes a person to protect and defend one's own life and limb against threat or perceived threat. This law states that an individual has no duty to retreat from any place he/she has a lawful right to be and may use any level of force, including lethal, if he/she reasonably believes he/she faces an imminent and immediate threat of serious bodily harm or death; this is as opposed to duty to retreat laws. Forty-f… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 26/05/15 10:42 AM |
| 1 | Finland still not conscripting females. Ridiculous? Yes.Katyn massacre: The Katyn massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, "Katyń crime"; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel, "Katyn shooting") was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. Originally, the term "Katyn massacre", also known as the Katyn Forest massacre, referred to the massacre at Katyn Forest, which was discovered first and was the largest … | /r/MensRights | 25/05/15 10:00 AM |
| 1 | first rule of fight club is...Krav Maga: Krav Maga /krɑːv məˈɡɑː/ (Hebrew: קְרַב מַגָּע [ˈkʁav maˈɡa], lit. "contact combat") is a self-defense system developed for the military in Israel that consists of a wide combination of techniques sourced from Aikido, Boxing, Judo and Wrestling along with realistic fight training Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi L… | /r/askTRP | 24/05/15 10:37 AM |
| 1 | The phrase "ladies and germs"Milton berle: Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age. Interesting: Milton Berle | Texaco Star Theater | Always Leave Them Laughing | Jackpot Bowling | Television comedy Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or le… | /r/MensRights | 24/05/15 09:05 AM |
| 1 | The tables turn!Limb lengthening methods: Limb lengthening methods extend the length of bones (height) in disproportionately short limbs, either by the administration of growth stimulators or surgery (distraction osteogenesis). Active natural growth in humans ends in the majority of cases before 20 years of age and can, in some cases, leave disproportionately short limbs. Significant results are possible only by artificially lengthening lower extremity bone length with various construction devices [(http://www.… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 23/05/15 11:31 PM |
| 1 | The tables turn!Section 10. Average height around the world of article Human height: Below are average adult heights by country/geographical region. The original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered. As with any statistical data, the accuracy of this data may be questionable for various reasons: Some studies may allow subjects to self-report values. Test subjects may have been invited instead of chosen at random, resulting… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 23/05/15 06:38 PM |
| 1 | Public HousingSection 8 (military): The term Section 8 refers to a former category of discharge from the United States military, that of a member judged mentally unfit for service. It also came to mean any service member given such a discharge or behaving as if deserving such a discharge, as in the expression, "he's a Section 8". The term comes from Section VIII of the World War II-era United States Army Regulation 615-360, which provided for the discharge of those deemed unfit for military service. Discharge… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/15 05:37 PM |
| 3 | Some redditors have made protest ads, calling out sponsors of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar over the fact that the soccer stadiums are being built with slave labor.Section 9. Allegations of slave labour of article Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup bid: A September 2013 report by The Guardian said a number of Nepalese migrant workers have faced poor conditions as companies handling construction for 2022 World Cup infrastructure forced workers to stay by denying them promised salaries and withholding necessary worker ID permits, rendering them illegal aliens. The Guardian wrote that their investigation "found evidence to suggest that thousands of Nepalese, who make … | /r/MensRights | 23/05/15 04:43 PM |
| 2 | Teacher quietly gets felony changed to misdemeanor after having sex with one of her students.Pedophilia: Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children, generally age 11 years or younger. As a medical diagnosis, specific criteria for the disorder extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13. A person who is diagnosed with pedophilia must be at least 16 years of age, but adolescents must be at least five years older than the prepubescent child for the attractio… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/15 03:29 PM |
| 1 | Woman drives on sidewalk to avoid traffic, hits woman injuring her leg so bad she requires surgery. NYPD and DA say not enough to charge her. Oh and she filed a car insurance claim.Caltrop: A caltrop (also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap [citation needed], galtrap, calthrop or crow's foot ) is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron). Caltrops were part of defenses that served to slow the advance of horses, war elephants, and human troops. They were particularly effective against the soft feet of camels. In more modern… | /r/PussyPass | 23/05/15 02:20 PM |
| 3 | Men are a minority group at Goldsmith's College where "diversity officer" tweeted #killallmen - just 33% enrolled are maleWoozle effect: The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, or a woozle, occurs when frequent citation of previous publications that lack evidence misleads individuals, groups and the public into thinking or believing there is evidence, and nonfacts become urban myths and factoids. Interesting: Factoid | Self-reference | Circular reasoning Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 22/05/15 11:17 PM |
| 1 | LTR slapped me.Borderline personality disorder: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, emotional intensity disorder, or borderline type in the ICD-10) is a cluster-B personality disorder, the essential feature of which is a pattern of marked impulsivity and instability of affects, interpersonal relationships, and self-image. The pattern is present by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations and contexts. Other symptoms usually include intense f… | /r/askTRP | 22/05/15 10:02 PM |
| 5 | UK: Girl, 14, charged after video of boy being punched in the face by foul-mouthed attacker is viewed 2.5million times. Boy praised for not retaliating.French Resistance: The French Resistance (French: La Résistance française) is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II. Résistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas), who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intell… | /r/MensRights | 21/05/15 11:01 AM |
| 2 | Posters Go Up Around Columbia Calling Mattress Rape Protester A "Pretty Little Liar"Pretty Little Liars (TV series): Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery–thriller television series loosely based on the popular book series of the same title, written by Sara Shepard. The show premiered on June 8, 2010 on ABC Family. After an initial order of 10 episodes on June 28, 2010, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes for season one. These episodes began airing on January 3, 2011 and ended on March 21, 2011. The ratings success of the first 10 episodes prompted the … | /r/MensRights | 20/05/15 10:35 PM |
| 1 | Ellen Pao-"We know we do have a problem of group harassment as well, but we're trying to address one problem at a time and we will get to group harassment next." Are we harassing feminists?Harassment: Harassment (/həˈræsmənt/ or /ˈhærəsmənt/) covers a wide range of behaviours of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour intended to disturb or upset, and it is characteristically repetitive. In the legal sense, it is intentional behaviour which is found threatening or disturbing. Sexual harassment refers to persistent and unwanted sexual advances, typically in the workplace, where the consequences of refusing are potentially very disadvantageous to the victim. ====… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/15 07:11 PM |
| 2 | Men are committing suicide more than women everywhere in the world. Why?Gender differences in suicide: Gender differences in suicide rates have been shown to be significant; there are highly asymmetric rates of attempted and completed suicides between males and females. The gap, also called the "gender paradox of suicidal behavior", can vary significantly among different countries. Statistics indicate that males die by suicide more frequently than do females; however, reported suicide attempts and suicidal ideation are more common among females. Image i Interesting:… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/15 06:24 PM |
| 1 | Let's discuss "Border Patrols and PPD". I was irked by the "woman tazed by border control" - why do some (a few) of you think a woman standing up for her rights is PPD? Read the article linked here, the police are trying to say she assaulted them first [Article Linked in Comment]United States v. Martinez-Fuerte: United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 543 (1976) was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that allowed the United States Border Patrol to set up permanent or fixed checkpoints on public highways leading to or away from the Mexican border, and that these checkpoints are not a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Interesting: List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 428 | Idem | City of Indianapolis v. Edmond | United States Border Patrol inte… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 19/05/15 08:02 AM |
| 2 | [videos] Guy in /r/videos cites study claiming men are more prone to be victims of domestic abuse then women. Gets bashed because it's one single study. /u/thedevguy cites studies, references, reviews and investigations supporting the claim.Samuel Colt: Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He founded Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (today, Colt's Manufacturing Company), and made the mass production of the revolver commercially viable. Colt's first two business ventures — producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and making underwater mines — ended in disappointment. But his business expanded rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers or… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/15 08:15 PM |
| 1 | Woman admits on Reddit to raping intoxicated male. Now what if roles were reversed? ( X-Post from R/offmychest )Playing doctor: "Playing doctor" is a phrase used colloquially in the western world to refer to children examining each other's genitals. It originates from children using the pretend roles of doctor and patient as a pretext for such an examination. However, whether or not such role-playing is involved, the phrase is used to refer to any similar examination. Playing doctor is distinguished from child-on-child sexual abuse because the latter is an overt and deliberate action directed at sexual st… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/15 11:27 AM |
| 1 | Swedish firms face penalties if boards not 'more female'Gender identity disorder: Gender identity disorder (GID) or gender dysphoria is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe people who experience significant dysphoria (discontent) with the sex and gender they were assigned at birth. Evidence suggests that people who identify with a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth may do so not just due to psychological or behavioral causes, but also biological ones related to their genetics, the makeup of thei… | /r/MensRights | 17/05/15 01:57 AM |
| 1 | Can't figure out reasons to go outside nor improve socially[5 Whys]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%20Whys]): See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage Interesting: 5 Whys | Diagnosis | Kaizen | Sakichi Toyoda Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 17/05/15 12:18 AM |
| 1 | I am now 18. Signing up for the Selective Service was the most discomforting thing I've ever done.Section 3. Failure to register of article Selective Service System: In 1980, men who knew they were required to register and did not do so could face up to five years in jail or a fine up to $50,000 if convicted. The potential fine was later increased to $250,000. Despite these possible penalties, government records indicate that from 1980 through 1986 there were only 20 indictments, of which 19 were instigated in part by self-publicized and self-reported non-registration. As one of the elements… | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 10:23 PM |
| 3 | I am now 18. Signing up for the Selective Service was the most discomforting thing I've ever done.American women in World War II: American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. The hard skilled labor of women was symbolized in the United States by the concept of Rosie the Riveter, a woman factory laborer performing what was previously considered man's work. With this expanded horizon o… | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 02:15 PM |
| 1 | Swedish Minister of Justice: The state shall have the power to dissolve companies with less than 40% female board members.Islam by country: Muslims constitute the world's second largest religious group. According to a 2010 study and released January 2011, Islam has 1.57 billion adherents, making up over 23% of the world population. Most Muslims are of two denominations: Sunni (75–90%) or Shia (10–20%). Ahmadis represent about 1% of the Muslim population. Islam is the dominant religion in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, and some parts of Asia. Large communities of Muslims are also found… | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 11:21 AM |
| 1 | Lorena O'Neil repeats bizarre lie about a fictional men's rights boycott of Mad Max film.Karpman drama triangle: The drama triangle is a psychological and social model of human interaction in transactional analysis (TA) first described by Stephen Karpman, M.D., in his 1968 article "Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis". The drama triangle model is used in psychology and psychotherapy. Image i - Classic drama triangle [1] Interesting: Counterdependency | Victim playing | The Empowerment Dynamic Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or le… | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 05:50 AM |
| 1 | Oh, so feminism is just about "equal rights"!!!Artemisia I of Caria: Artemisia I of Caria (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμισία; Persian: آرتمیس fl. 480 BCE) was queen of Halicarnassus, a city of Dorian Greeks and Carians in the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria and of the nearby island of Kos, in about 480 BCE. She fought for her overlord Xerxes I, King of Persia against the free Greek city states during the second Persian invasion of Greece. She personally commanded her contribution of five ships at the naval battle of Artemisium and in the naval Battle of… | /r/MGTOW | 16/05/15 12:58 AM |
| 3 | Let's discuss "Border Patrols and PPD". I was irked by the "woman tazed by border control" - why do some (a few) of you think a woman standing up for her rights is PPD? Read the article linked here, the police are trying to say she assaulted them first [Article Linked in Comment]Taser: A Taser or conducted electrical weapon (CEW) is an electroshock weapon sold by Taser International. It fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected to the main unit by conductors, to deliver electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing "neuromuscular incapacitation". Someone struck by a Taser experiences stimulation of his or her sensory nerves and motor nerves, resulting in strong involuntary muscle contractions. Tasers do not rely only on pain complia… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/05/15 09:29 AM |
| 1 | "Patriarchy hurts men, too! ...But they bring it upon themselves."White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather i… | /r/MensRights | 15/05/15 07:42 AM |
| 2 | Boston U prof now sorry for 'indelicate' tweets blasting white men - yea rightWilliam Ellison: William Ellison Jr, born April Ellison, (C. April, 1790 – 5 December 1861) was a cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, a free negro and former slave who achieved considerable success in business before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the medium property owners, and certainly the wealthiest "black" property owner, in the state. He held 40 slaves at his death and more than 1,000 acres of land. From 1830-1865 he and his sons were… | /r/MensRights | 14/05/15 10:16 PM |
| 1 | Men should be forced to get vasectomies.. --Popular vegan on youtubeCompulsory sterilization: Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced sterilization (or compulsory sterilisation respectively forced sterilisation – see spelling differences), programs are government policies in violation of human rights conventions which attempt to force people to undergo surgical or other sterilization. The reasons governments implement sterilization programs vary in purpose and intent. In the first half of the 20th century, several such programs were instituted in non-huma… | /r/MensRights | 14/05/15 06:28 AM |
| 1 | Is Inge Lehmann celebrated because she was such an influential scientist? Or a scientist with a vagina?Section 13. Notable seismologists of article Seismology: Aki, Keiiti Don L. Anderson Bolt, Bruce Claerbout, Jon Dziewonski, Adam Marian Ewing, Maurice Galitzine, Boris Borisovich Gamburtsev, Grigory A. Gutenberg, Beno Hough, Susan Jeffreys, Harold Jones, Lucy Kanamori, Hiroo Keilis-Borok, Vladimir Knopoff, Leon Lehmann, Inge Mallet, Robert Mercalli, Giuseppe Milne, John Mohorovičić, Andrija Oldham, Richard Dixon Fusakichi Omori Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal Press, Frank Richards, Paul G. … | /r/MGTOW | 14/05/15 05:58 AM |
| 1 | Hypergamy is a Female Construct. 8 out of 10 men are undesirable to women. The other 2? They all want.Hypergamy: Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as "marrying up") is a term used in social science for the act or practice of marrying someone who is wealthier or of higher caste or social status than oneself. [citation needed] The word "hypogamy" typically refers to instances of the inverse occurring: marrying a person of lower social class or status. Interesting: Nair | Singiwala | Nambudiri | Mating (human) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or … | /r/MensRights | 13/05/15 12:39 PM |
| 1 | Teacher fired after porn video found by students, claims to be drugged by "airborn cocaine" [Video in comments]Scopolamine: Error in template * unknown parameter name (Template:Infobox_drug): 'CASNo_Ref' Scopolamine (USAN), hyoscine (BAN) also known as levo-duboisine or burundanga, sold as Scopoderm, is a tropane alkaloid drug with muscarinic antagonist effects. It is among the secondary metabolites of plants from Solanaceae (nightshade) family of plants, such as henbane, jimson weed (Datura), angel's trumpets (Brugmansia), and corkwood (Duboisia). Scopolamine exerts its effects by acting as a competitiv… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 13/05/15 08:18 AM |
| 1 | It is finally over.McMartin preschool trial: The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case of the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in California, were charged with numerous acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983. Arrests and the pretrial investigation ran from 1984 to 1987, and the trial ran from 1987 to 1990. After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtai… | /r/MensRights | 13/05/15 12:10 AM |
| 1 | "The Manbod fad is sexist and misgynistic!"Tumblr: Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. As of May 1, 2015, Tumblr hosts over 234.2 … | /r/MensRights | 12/05/15 07:30 PM |
| 1 | All 19 women have washed out of Army Ranger School — in the first phaseBravo Two Zero: Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army SAS patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991. According to one patrol member's account, the patrol were given the task of gathering intelligence, finding a good lying-up position (LUP) and setting up an observation post (OP) :15 on the Iraqi Main Supply Route (MSR) between Baghdad and North-Western Iraq, while according to another, the task was to find and destroy Iraqi Scud missile launcher… | /r/MensRights | 12/05/15 01:16 PM |
| 3 | Newly hired Boston University professor tweets “White masculinity isn’t a problem for America’s colleges, white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.”Sokal affair: The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether "a leading North American journal of cultural studies – whose editorial collective includes such … | /r/MensRights | 12/05/15 12:47 AM |
| 2 | Newly hired Boston University professor tweets “White masculinity isn’t a problem for America’s colleges, white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.”White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather i… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/15 07:44 AM |
| 1 | What compels a woman to bed underage boys?Ephebophilia: Ephebophilia is the primary or exclusive adult sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. The term was originally used in the late 19th to mid 20th century. It is one of a number of sexual preferences across age groups subsumed under the technical term chronophilia. Ephebophilia strictly denotes the preference for mid-to-late adolescent sexual partners, not the mere presence of some level of sexual attraction. In research environments, specific terms are u… | /r/askTRP | 11/05/15 06:31 AM |
| 2 | Meet The Female PedophilePedophilia: Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children, generally age 11 years or younger. As a medical diagnosis, specific criteria for the disorder extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13. A person who is diagnosed with pedophilia must be at least 16 years of age, but adolescents must be at least five years older than the prepubescent child for the attractio… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/15 05:33 AM |
| 2 | Meet The Female PedophilePedophilia: Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children, generally age 11 years or younger. As a medical diagnosis, specific criteria for the disorder extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13. A person who is diagnosed with pedophilia must be at least 16 years of age, but adolescents must be at least five years older than the prepubescent child for the attractio… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/15 05:14 AM |
| 3 | Misandrist "Equality minister" Lynne Featherstone lost her seat in the UK General Election! (she thinks men are to blame for the world's problems and that genital mutilation would be stopped if it happened to boys!)Prevalence of circumcision: The prevalence of circumcision refers to the percentage of males in a given population who have been circumcised. It does not refer to the proportion of newborn males who undergo neonatal circumcision. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that globally one-third of males aged 15 years and over are circumcised, with almost 70% of those being Muslims. Male circumcision is most prevalent in the Muslim world, where it is nearly universal, as well as in parts … | /r/MensRights | 10/05/15 01:59 PM |
| 2 | Misandrist "Equality minister" Lynne Featherstone lost her seat in the UK General Election! (she thinks men are to blame for the world's problems and that genital mutilation would be stopped if it happened to boys!)Minister for Gender Equality (Sweden): The Minister for Gender Equality (Swedish: Jämställdhetsministern) is a cabinet minister within the Swedish Government and appointed by the Prime Minister of Sweden. The minister is responsible for issues regarding gender equality, popular education and policies for the civil society. The current Minister for Gender Equality is Åsa Regnér, appointed on 3 October 2014. She concurrently serves as Minister for Children and the Elderly. Interesting: Ministry of… | /r/MensRights | 10/05/15 09:49 AM |
| 1 | Are there any studies that refute the idea that women are less respected in conversation then men?Self-Made Man (book): Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man is a book written by journalist Norah Vincent, recounting an 18-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a man—"Ned"—and then integrated into traditionally male-only venues, such as a bowling league and a monastery. She described this as "a human project" about learning. In the book, she describes her experiences as a man in strip clubs, on dates, in a monastery, and as part of a men's support group. In order to effectivel… | /r/MensRights | 09/05/15 02:40 AM |
| 1 | A female physician had an affair with a male physician. No intercourse took place, only oral sex. She secretly took the sperm from her cheeks to impregnate herself. She later sued for child support and won.Section 2. Elements of article Intentional infliction of emotional distress: Defendant acted intentionally or recklessly; and Defendant’s conduct was extreme and outrageous; and Defendant’s act is the cause of the distress; and Plaintiff suffers severe emotional distress as a result of defendant’s conduct. It is not necessary that an act be intentionally offensive. A reckless disregard for the likelihood of causing emotional distress is sufficient. For example, if a defendant refused to inform a… | /r/MensRights | 08/05/15 04:40 PM |
| 13 | Just a Reminder: You can be raped by a woman and forced to pay child support should your rapist conceive.Hermesmann v. Seyer: Hermesmann v. Seyer (State ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer 847 P.2d 1273 (Kan. 1993)) was a precedent-setting Kansas, United States case in which Colleen Hermesmann successfully argued that a woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a criminal act committed by the woman. The case was brought in her name by the then Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. Interesting: Kansas Supreme Court | Shar… | /r/MensRights | 08/05/15 03:42 PM |
| 1 | I see some pretty big reactions to the idea of "rape culture" from this sub. Check out this poor bugger to get your head around it.Robert Briffault: Robert Stephen Briffault (1876 – 11 December 1948) was trained as a surgeon, but found fame as a social anthropologist and in later life as a novelist. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Islam</sup> <sup>and</sup> <sup>science</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>The</sup> <sup>First</sup> <sup>Sex</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Philosopher's</sup> <sup>stone</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Publishers</sup> <sup>Weekly</sup> <sup>list</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>bestselling</sup> <sup>novels</sup> <sup>in</sup> <s… | /r/MensRights | 08/05/15 08:11 AM |
| 1 | Tell me again how this isn't sexist?-ism: -ism is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismos), reaching English through Latin, via French. It is often used in philosophy to define specific ideologies, and, as such, at times it is used as a noun when referring to a broad range of ideologies in a general sense. The suffix 'ism' qua ism is neutral and therefore bears no connotations associated with any of the many ideologies it has been appended to; such determinations can only be informed by… | /r/MensRights | 07/05/15 11:24 AM |
| 2 | Woman Wants Slice Of Ex-Husband's $160 Million Fortune… 23 Years After They Got DivorcedPoe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that, without a clear indicator of an author's intention, it is often impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of such extremism. Someone will likely mistake the parody for a genuine article, or vice-versa. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or le… | /r/MensRights | 07/05/15 09:28 AM |
| 1 | 2 women in truck that ran down black man get max terms /r/justicepornSolipsism: Solipsism (i/ˈsɒlɨpsɪzəm/; from Latin solus, meaning "alone", and ipse, meaning "self") is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. Interesting: Metaphy… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 07/05/15 02:47 AM |
| 1 | I am a feminist. Help me understand the Men's Rights movement.Social science: Social science is a major branch of science, and a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. It in turn has many branches, each of which is considered a "social science". The main social sciences include economics, political science, human geography, demography and sociology. In a wider sense, social science also includes among its branches some fields in the humanities such as anthropology, archaeolog… | /r/MensRights | 06/05/15 06:13 AM |
| 2 | Google finally celebrates the male gender with a Google Doodl.....oh wait nope, more feminist propaganda portraying men as oppressors, complete with cringeworthy hipster indie musicNellie Bly: Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journal… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/15 09:46 AM |
| 1 | Help me find a source!Rape culture: Rape culture is a concept within feminist theory in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality. Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm of some forms of sexual violence, or some combination of these. The notion of rape culture has been used to describe and explain behavior within social groups, includ… | /r/MensRights | 04/05/15 12:36 PM |
| 1 | Woman to become FDNY firefighter... despite failing crucial physical testKara Hultgreen: Kara Spears Hultgreen (5 October 1965 – 25 October 1994), was a lieutenant and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when she crashed her F-14 Tomcat into the sea on final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Image i Interesting: Aviator call sign | Dagny Hultgreen | October 25 | Hultgreen Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete o… | /r/MensRights | 04/05/15 08:57 AM |
| 1 | “B-But Gender is A Social Construct”Section 6. Possibility of human tetrachromats of article Tetrachromacy: Humans, apes and Old World monkeys normally have three types of cone cells and are therefore trichromats. However, at low light intensities, the rod cells may contribute to color vision, giving a small region of tetrachromacy in the color space; human rod cells' sensitivity is greatest at a blueish-green wavelength. In humans, two cone cell pigment genes are on the sex X chromosome, the classical type 2 opsin genes OPN1MW an… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 10:52 PM |
| 1 | “B-But Gender is A Social Construct”[David Reimer],](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Reimer],): See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage Interesting: David Reimer | David J. Reimer | Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election | John Money | Canadian federal election results in Rural Manitoba Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 06:38 PM |
| 1 | 13 girls conspired to have a boy from their high school arrested for rape, he went to jail, but now they've found some evidence that might turn the tablesMurder of Zachary Turner: Zachary Andrew Turner (18 July 2002 – 18 August 2003) was a boy from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador who was killed by his mother, Shirley Jane Turner, in a murder-suicide on 18 August 2003. Turner drugged the infant and jumped into the Atlantic Ocean. At the time, Turner had been released on bail and awarded custody of the infant even though she was in the process of being extradited to the United States to stand trial for the murder of Zachary's father, Andrew D… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 03/05/15 04:39 PM |
| 1 | “B-But Gender is A Social Construct”Gender: Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or intersex), sex-based social structures (including gender roles and other social roles), or gender identity. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use … | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 04:36 PM |
| 4 | Woman starts all female company to realize her Utopian dream and benefit the absence of men. Despite having made $500k in the first year she had to shut down due to catfights, jealousy, infighting, competition, sexual aggression and no work was done. Conclusion: she would rather employ males only.Pound sterling: The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known simply as the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence (singular: penny). A number of nations that do not use sterling also have currencies called the pound. At various times, the pound sterling was commodity money or bank notes backed by s… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 01:48 PM |
| 1 | [FR] Captaining my ship. Whipping the first mate into shape and giving marching orders.SMART criteria: SMART is a mnemonic acronym, giving criteria to guide in the setting of objectives, for example in project management, employee-performance management and personal development. The letters S and M usually mean specific and measurable. The other letters have meant different things to different authors, as described below. Additional letters have been added by some authors. SMART criteria are commonly attributed to Peter Drucker's management by objectives concept. The first-known u… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 03/05/15 01:21 PM |
| 1 | If you're going to get a #meninist shirt/sweater printed...Man (word): The term man (from Proto-Germanic *mannaz or *manwaz "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age. The word developed into Old English man, mann meaning primarily "adult male human" but secondarily capable of designating a person of unspecified gender, "someone, one" or humanity at large (see also German Mann, Old Norse maðr, Gothic manna "man"). More restricted English terms for an adult male were wer (cognat… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 06:57 AM |
| 1 | Reddit Repost: She-Thor and the “Ms. Male Character” ParadoxAthena (Marvel Comics): Athena is a fictional deity in the Marvel Comics Universe based on the Greek Goddess of the same name. Athena first appeared in the pages of Thor #164, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby. Interesting: Athena (comics) | List of Marvel Comics characters: A | List of Marvel Comics characters: V Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 06:52 AM |
| 2 | If its misogynistic to objectify a lesbian how is objectifying gay guys any different?Bigotry: Bigotry is a state of mind where a person obstinately, irrationally, unfairly or intolerantly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. Some examples include personal beliefs, race, religion, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other group characteristics. Interesting: Polish American Congress | Religious persecution | List of Unification Church affiliated organizations Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score o… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 06:27 AM |
| 1 | All-female team submits study on PhD sexism, shocked to be asked to add a male voice.Feminism: Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work,… | /r/MensRights | 02/05/15 09:01 PM |
| 1 | All-female team submits study on PhD sexism, shocked to be asked to add a male voice.Sociology: Sociology is the scientific study of social behaviour, including its origins, development, organization, and institutions. It is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, social disorder and social change. Many sociologists aim to conduct research that may be applied directly to social policy and welfare, while others focus primarily on refining the theoretical understanding of social … | /r/MensRights | 02/05/15 08:32 PM |
| 14 | The gender disparity in STEM fields, explained.Liberal arts education: The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberal, "worthy of a free person") to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts, while arithme… | /r/MensRights | 02/05/15 09:26 AM |
| 1 | Caught in cam!!! A horny woman wants sex with taxi driver but he...[HD 2014]. Cab driver now day are choosing to carry single women last and install a cam inside because women are frequently harassing the driver this way and refuse to pay.Borderline personality disorder: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, emotional intensity disorder, or borderline type in the ICD-10) is a cluster-B personality disorder, the essential feature of which is a pattern of marked impulsivity and instability of affects, interpersonal relationships, and self-image. The pattern is present by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations and contexts. Other symptoms usually include intense f… | /r/MGTOW | 02/05/15 06:29 AM |
| 1 | Do wives/girlfriends actually enjoy spending time with you?Pair bond: In biology, a pair bond is the strong affinity that develops in some species between a pair consisting of a male and female, or in some cases as a same-sex pairing, potentially leading to producing offspring and/or a lifelong bond. Pair-bonding is a term coined in the 1940s that is frequently used in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology circles. The term often implies either a lifelong socially monogamous relationship or a stage of mating interaction in socially monogamous species… | /r/askTRP | 01/05/15 09:56 PM |
| 2 | Red Pill about to surpass Mens Rights in subscribersOverton window: In political theory, the Overton window is the range of ideas the public will accept. According to the theory, an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within that window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. It is named for its originator, Joseph P. Overton (1960–2003), a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. At any given moment, the "window" includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the cur… | /r/MensRights | 01/05/15 09:42 PM |
| 1 | I have gone Alpha. My penis.. has gone beta....Arginine: Arginine (/ˈɑrdʒɨniːn/, abbreviated as Arg or R) is an α-amino acid. It was first isolated in 1886. The L-form is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids. At the level of molecular genetics, in the structure of the messenger ribonucleic acid mRNA, CGU, CGC, CGA, CGG, AGA, and AGG, are the triplets of nucleotide bases or codons that code for arginine during protein synthesis. Arginine was first isolated from a lupin seedling extract in 1886 by the Swiss chemist Ernst Schultze. Ima… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 01/05/15 12:54 PM |
| 2 | Twelve reasons why "pay for play" is a-OK!Borderline personality disorder: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, emotional intensity disorder, or borderline type in the ICD-10) is a cluster-B personality disorder, the essential feature of which is a pattern of marked impulsivity and instability of affects, interpersonal relationships, and self-image. The pattern is present by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations and contexts. Other symptoms usually include intense f… | /r/MGTOW | 30/04/15 06:38 PM |
| 3 | TIL A homeless guy who saved a woman from a knife-wielder was ignored by 25 people as he lay dying for an hour“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/MensRights | 30/04/15 07:15 AM |
| 1 | "Transgendered" is a mental disorder and we are allowing men to cut off healthy body parts to treat it.Section 6. Brain structure of article Causes of transsexualism: In a first-of-its-kind study, Zhou et al. (1995) found that in a region of the brain called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc), a region known for sex and anxiety responses, MTF transsexuals have a female-normal size while FTM transsexuals have a male-normal size. While the transsexuals studied had taken hormones, this was accounted for by including non-transsexual male and female controls who, for a variety of medical r… | /r/MensRights | 29/04/15 11:23 AM |
| 3 | "Mattress Girl" Quotes from talk at Brown University. Unsurprisingly, she appears to be anti-science/facts.Post-structuralism: Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s. A major theme of post-structuralism is instability in the human sciences, due to the complexity of humans themselves and the impossibility of fully escaping structures in order that we might study them. Post-structuralism is a respo… | /r/MensRights | 29/04/15 10:03 AM |
| 1 | Star Trek actress Alice Eve claims that Bruce Jenner is not a "real woman" because he doesn't have a vagina and he is not "paid less than a man"Section 4. Taking advantage of his Olympic fame of article Bruce Jenner: In the 1970s, Olympic athletes were considered amateur and were not allowed to seek or accept payment for their positions as sports celebrities. In 1972, during the Cold War, three major Olympic titles that had a long history of American success, basketball, 100 meters, and decathlon, were won by Soviet athletes. Winning back the decathlon title made Jenner an American hero. Tony Kornheiser of The New York Times stated, "Je… | /r/MensRights | 29/04/15 02:53 AM |
| 16 | John Cleese's ex-wife is now worth more than he is after their divorce settlement.Section 4. Marriage to John Cleese and divorce of article Alyce Cleese: Eichelberger married actor John Cleese in 1992. They divorced in 2008. They have no children together. When he met her in 1990, she was living in a third floor council flat in London with two sons from a previous marriage. They divorced in 2008, though details of the divorce settlement only became public knowledge in August 2009. The film director and restaurant critic Michael Winner, who accompanied the couple on their hone… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/15 03:25 PM |
| 1 | Equality = Female Supremacy and Promoting Violence Against MenSally Miller Gearhart: Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. She has been controversial for her statement that "The proportio… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/15 01:51 PM |
| 2 | 24 yoVirgin here, should I lower my standards?Half Dome: Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft (1,444 m) above the valley floor. Image i Interesting: Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome | Glacier Point | Mirror Lake (California) | Yosemite Valley Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | F… | /r/askTRP | 26/04/15 11:13 AM |
| 1 | Woman who exposed breasts to Google Street view car has been reported to police, due to face courtUgly law: From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with "unsightly or disgusting" disabilities to appear in public. Some of these laws were called unsightly beggar ordinances. Interesting: Ethnic penalty | Lesbophobia | Housing discrimination | Gerontophobia Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PussyPassDenied | 26/04/15 02:21 AM |
| 1 | You are doing it right. It's 2015, not 1915 (X-post from /r/pics)No true Scotsman: No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"). Interesti… | /r/MensRights | 25/04/15 04:19 PM |
| 1 | Judge Tells Sherri Shepherd -- You ARE The Mother!!!Section 10. Personal life of article Sherri Shepherd: Shepherd was previously married to Jeff Tarpley. Their twin daughter was stillborn. The surviving twin, a son, Jeffrey, was delivered prematurely. TV writer Lamar Sally proposed to Shepherd on December 26, 2010. They married in August 2011 at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, and in September 2012, Shepherd said the couple was searching for a surrogate in order to have a child. By May 2014, a separation was filed. By May 2014, they had hired a s… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 25/04/15 04:04 PM |
| 1 | Woman wants alimony for having been a girlfriendGodwin's law: Godwin's Law (or Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism. Despite being described as universal regarding the subject of the discussion, Godwin's law is more likely to be applicable … | /r/MensRights | 25/04/15 11:31 AM |
| 1 | Male student now sues Columbia University over classmate who carried a mattress around campus and accused him of raping herMattress Performance (Carry That Weight): Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) is a work of endurance performance art by Emma Sulkowicz, an American fourth-year visual arts major at Columbia University in New York City who has alleged that she was raped in her dorm room by another student. Initiated in September 2014 for her senior thesis, the work involves Sulkowicz carrying a mattress wherever she goes on campus, to protest the university's response to the allegation. Sulkowicz says she wi… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/15 08:59 PM |
| 1 | Lady here, have serious question, please be nice?Transposition (logic): In propositional logic, transposition is a valid rule of replacement that permits one to switch the antecedent with the consequent of a conditional statement in a logical proof if they are also both negated. It is the inference from the truth of "A implies B" the truth of "Not-B implies not-A", and conversely. It is very closely related to the rule of inference modus tollens. It is the rule that: (P → Q) (¬ Q → ¬ P) Where "" is a metalogical symbol representing "can be rep… | /r/askTRP | 24/04/15 02:33 PM |
| 4 | Calgary Expo BANNED -- Yes, the gamer convention in Japan intends to ban all affiliates of CalgaryExpo from their event, in solidarity with the Honey Badgers.Kanamara Matsuri: The Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り?, "Festival of the Steel Phallus") is held each spring at the Kanayama Shrine (金山神社, Kanayama-jinja ?) in Kawasaki, Japan. The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. The penis, as the central theme of the event, is reflected in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade. The Kanamara Matsuri is centred on a local penis-venerating shrine. The legend being that a sharp-toothed d… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/15 02:13 PM |
| 1 | Getting female attention is a new experience for meCognitive behavioral therapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a short-term psychotherapy originally designed to treat depression, but is now used for a number of mental illnesses. It works to solve current problems and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. The name refers to behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and therapy based upon a combination of basic behavioral and cognitive principles. Most therapists working with patients dealing with anxiety and depression use a blend of cogniti… | /r/askTRP | 24/04/15 11:43 AM |
| 1 | Why have you been discouraged by, or never supported, feminism? What about the movement repels you?Sally Miller Gearhart: Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. She has been controversial for her statement that "The proportio… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/15 08:07 AM |
| 8 | Ex-wife kills ex-husband after he files domestic violence complaint. The courtroom was filled with family and friends who came in support ex-wife, many of who spoke about how they say she was the victim..."she poses no threat to anyone." Judge gives minimum-required sentence.Blackstone's formulation: In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", ...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. Image i Interesting: False positives and false negatives | Presumption of innocence Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will a… | /r/PussyPass | 24/04/15 04:26 AM |
| 1 | I'm not an MRA but I figured you guys would like thisReductio ad absurdum: Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to absurdity"; pl.: reductiones ad absurdum), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin: argument to absurdity), is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial, or in turn to demonstrate that a statement is false by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its acceptance. First recognized and studied i… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/15 01:13 AM |
| 1 | Whites and males have been banned from an 'anti-racism' event at a British universityGenderqueer: Genderqueer (GQ; alternatively non-binary) is a catch-all category for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine—identities which are thus outside of the gender binary and cisnormativity. Genderqueer people may identify as one or more of the following: having an overlap of, or indefinite lines between, gender identity; having two or more genders (being bigender, trigender, or pangender); having no gender (being agender, nongendered, genderless, genderfree, or … | /r/MensRights | 23/04/15 01:58 AM |
| 5 | Are MGTOW's Completely against the idea of being in a relationship with a woman?Living apart together: Living Apart Together (abbreviation: LAT) is a term to describe couples who have an intimate relationship but live at separate addresses. LAT couples account for around 10% of adults in Britain, a figure which equates to over a quarter of all those not married or cohabiting. Similar figures are recorded for other countries in northern Europe, including Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Research suggests similar or even higher rates in southern E… | /r/MGTOW | 22/04/15 12:06 PM |
| 1 | U.S. cracks down on female teachers who sexually abuse studentsAges of consent in Europe: The ages of consent vary by jurisdiction across Europe. The ages of consent are currently set between 13 and 18. The vast majority of countries set their ages between 14 and 16; only six countries (Spain, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Turkey and Vatican) do not fit into this pattern. The laws can also stipulate the specific activities that are permitted or differentially specify the age at which a given sex can participate. Below is a discussion of the various laws dealing w… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/15 09:27 AM |
| 1 | A student who sometimes awoke his long-term romantic partner with a kiss was found guilty of sexual assaultReductio ad absurdum: Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to absurdity"; pl.: reductiones ad absurdum), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin: argument to absurdity), is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial, or in turn to demonstrate that a statement is false by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its acceptance. First recognized and studied i… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/15 08:04 AM |
| 1 | Circumcision: Babies feel pain like adults. They remember pain for months (at least). And they have a lower pain threshold than adults. Cutting is barbaric, cutting and just assuming they don't feel pain is monstrous.David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/15 12:16 AM |
| 1 | Circumcision: Babies feel pain like adults. They remember pain for months (at least). And they have a lower pain threshold than adults. Cutting is barbaric, cutting and just assuming they don't feel pain is monstrous.Foreskin restoration: Foreskin restoration is the process of expanding the residual skin on the penis, through surgical or non-surgical methods, in an attempt to expand or restore the foreskin, which may have been removed by circumcision, with new tissue. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Genital</sup> <sup>modification</sup> <sup>and</sup> <sup>mutilation <sup>|</sup> <sup>Tissue</sup> <sup>expansion</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>NORM-UK</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Genital</sup> <sup>r… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/15 12:13 AM |
| 7 | Video: Guy interviews people at a university and asks why they want Hillary Clinton for president, and then calls them out on their sexism.Hillary Rodham cattle futures controversy: In 1978 and 1979, lawyer and First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham engaged in a series of trades of cattle futures contracts. Her initial $1,000 investment had generated nearly $100,000 when she stopped trading after ten months. In 1994, after Hillary Rodham Clinton had become First Lady of the United States, the trading became the subject of considerable controversy regarding the likelihood of such a spectacular rate of return, possible conflict of int… | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 10:45 PM |
| 1 | Pressure grows on marines to consider lowering combat standards for women.Sexual dimorphism: Sexual dimorphism is a phenotypic differentiation between males and females of the same species. The prototypical example is for differences in characteristics of reproductive organs. Other possible examples are for secondary sex characteristics, body size, physical strength and morphology, ornamentation, behavior and other bodily traits. Traits such as ornamentation and breeding behavior found in one sex only imply sexual selection. Image i - Female (left) and male (right) co… | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 09:54 PM |
| 1 | Oberlin “feminists” accuse Christina Hoff Sommers of supporting rapistsHorseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 08:54 PM |
| 1 | FBI Admits Flaws In Hair Analysis Over Decades. Dozens Sentenced To Death. Media Scrubs Article Clean That Men Victimized.Conviction rate: The conviction rate of a prosecutor or government is the number of convictions divided by the number of criminal cases brought. Japan has a conviction rate that exceeds 99% (Note that it includes guilty plea cases. ), which has been attributed to low prosecutorial budgets impelling understaffed prosecutors to present judges with only the most obviously guilty defendants. In the U.S. federal court system, the conviction rose from approximately 75 percent to approximately 85% betw… | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 01:41 PM |
| 1 | (Reminder of this existing) In Defense of Men, What's Left of Them - Present Day Feminism (One of the best anti-feminism vids I've seen)The Naked Communist: The Naked Communist is a 1958 book by an ex FBI agent, United States author political theorist Cleon Skousen. The author posits and seeks to describe a geopolitical strategy by which the Marxist–Leninist Soviet Union was attempting to overcome and control all the governments of the world that were not members of the Communist bloc. At the time that the book was published, during the Cold War, fear of communism was common among people in non-communist nations. The list of all… | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 12:40 AM |
| 3 | Just entered my 300th factoid. Thought I'd brag.Sally Miller Gearhart: Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. She has been controversial for her statement that "The proportio… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/15 09:50 PM |
| 1 | Male PrivilegeCherry picking (fallacy): Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position. It is a kind of fallacy of selective attention, the most common example of which is the confirmation bias. Cherry picking may be committed intentionally or unintentionally. This fallacy is a major problem i… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/15 10:45 PM |
| 1 | Male PrivilegeAtlas Shrugged: Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. Atlas Shrugged includes elements of science fiction, mystery, and romance, and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction. The book depicts a dystopian United States, wherein many of society's most prominent and successful industrialists abandon their fort… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/15 08:44 PM |
| 7 | Male PrivilegeGender differences in suicide: Gender differences in suicide rates have been shown to be significant; there are highly asymmetric rates of attempted and completed suicides between males and females. The gap, also called the "gender paradox of suicidal behavior", can vary significantly among different countries. Statistics indicate that males die by suicide more frequently than do females; however, reported suicide attempts and suicidal ideation are more common among females. Image i Interesting:… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/15 08:04 PM |
| 1 | the male feminist delusionNeoteny: Neoteny (/niːˈɒtɨni/ /niːˈɒtni/ or /niːˈɒtəni/ ), also called juvenilization, is one of the two ways by which paedomorphism can arise. Paedomorphism or paedomorphosis is the retention by adults of traits previously seen only in the young, and is a subject studied in the field of developmental biology. Paedomorphism can also be the retention of larval traits which is commonly studied in salamanders. In neoteny, the physiological (or somatic) development of an organism (typically an anima… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/15 06:52 PM |
| 1 | The March of Feminism Continues UnabtedTurtles all the way down: "Turtles all the way down" is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the "unmoved mover" paradox. The metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of the myth that Earth is actually flat and is supported on the back of a World Turtle, which itself is propped up by a chain of larger and larger turtles. Questioning what the final turtle might be standing on, the anecdote humorously concludes that it is "turtles all the way down"… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/15 12:17 AM |
| 3 | We all know who really suffers in warBonus Army: The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army ser… | /r/MensRights | 18/04/15 07:46 PM |
| 15 | We all know who really suffers in warRape during the occupation of Germany: As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II mass rapes took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation. Most Western scholars agree that the majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet servicemen, but estimates vary widely. Russian historians have criticized the estimates and argue that these crimes were not widespread. The war time rapes had been surrounded by d… | /r/MensRights | 18/04/15 05:59 PM |
| 0 | How every company in America can save 23% on wagesStereotype threat: Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about their social group. Since its introduction into the academic literature, stereotype threat has become one of the most widely studied topics in the field of social psychology. Stereotype threat has been shown to reduce the performance of individuals who belong to negatively stereotyped groups. If negative stereotypes are present regarding … | /r/MensRights | 18/04/15 12:27 PM |
| 1 | "LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School"California Proposition 209: Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education. Modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the California Civil Rights Initiative was authored by two California a… | /r/MensRights | 18/04/15 02:22 AM |
| 19 | Man kidnaps girl with the help of his wife, holding her captive, raping and torturing her for 7 years, gets 104 years while wife is granted immunityKarla Homolka: Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale and Leanne Bordelais (born 4 May 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a convicted Canadian serial killer who helped her husband rape and murder at least three women. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as the rape and death of her sister Tammy. Homol… | /r/PussyPass | 17/04/15 05:10 PM |
| 2 | Hillary Clinton's Campaign is Going to Cause...?Sally Miller Gearhart: Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. She has been controversial for her statement that "The proportio… | /r/MensRights | 17/04/15 02:40 PM |
| 2 | Nurse spared jail after killing baby in botched circumcisionFemale Genital Mutilation Act 2003: The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was introduced by Baroness Rendell of Babergh on 14 July of that year as House of Lords Bill 98. It extended previous legislation by also making it illegal for UK nationals to perform female genital mutilation outside the borders of the UK, and increased the maximum penalty from five to 14 years. The Act replaced … | /r/MensRights | 17/04/15 01:49 PM |
| 2 | Married 1 week and put on solitary.Rat Park: Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s (and published in 1980) by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Alexander's hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in laboratory rats exposed to it is attributable to their living conditions, and not to any addictive property of the drug itself. He told the Canadia… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/15 01:28 AM |
| 1 | Pittsburgh pop-up shop taking a stand for women on Equal Pay Day Charges Women Less than Men for the same productPop-up retail: Pop-up retail, also known as pop-up store (pop-up shop in the UK, Australia and Ireland) or flash retailing, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Image i - Sprout by HP Mobile Shipping container pop-up truck activation Interesting: REDgroup Retail | Dash (boutique) | Elijah Joy Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 15/04/15 05:11 PM |
| 1 | Field report, dread night results and question on gifting.Operant conditioning: Operant conditioning, sometimes referred to as instrumental learning, is a method of learning that occurs through reinforcements and punishments for behavior. It encourages the subject to associate desirable or undesirable outcomes with certain behaviors. Instrumental conditioning was first discovered and published by Jerzy Konorski and was also referred to as Type II reflexes. Mechanisms of instrumental conditioning suggest that the behavior may change in form, frequency, … | /r/MarriedRedPill | 15/04/15 11:34 AM |
| 9 | Married 1 week and put on solitary.Annulment: Annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place (though some jurisdictions provide that the marriage is only void from the date of the annulment; for example, this is the case in section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 in England and Wales ). In legal terminology, an annulment makes a void marriag… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/15 08:41 AM |
| 1 | She released a tweet which got a male coworker fired for being sexist. Then she got fired as well.Fork (system call): In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself. It is usually a system call, implemented in the kernel. Fork is the primary (and historically, only) method of process creation on Unix-like operating systems. Interesting: Child process | Fork bomb | Fork (software development) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/04/15 04:36 AM |
| 1 | Vancouver Island teacher's 31 year career was destroyed in one weekend of false accusations by a student. Now seeks compensation.Tragedy of the commons: The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory by Garrett Hardin, which states that individuals acting independently and rationally according to each's self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource. The term is taken from the title of an article written by Hardin in 1968, which is in turn based upon an essay by a Victorian economist on the effects of unregulated grazing on common land. "Commons" in this sense ha… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/15 07:51 PM |
| 1 | Arizona judge sentences murderer Jodi Arias to life without paroleRobert Stroud: Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a federal American prisoner who has been cited as one of the United States' most notorious criminals. During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist, but despite his nickname, he was not permitted to keep his birds at Alcatraz, where he was incarcerated from 1942. Born in Seattle, Washington, Stroud ran away from his abus… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/04/15 07:56 AM |
| 4 | Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions - this article from "Cornell Chronicle' with 11 min embeded vid, exposes the shocking truth - women simply don't want those jobs.“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/15 04:00 AM |
| 1 | Well that escalated quickly-Wife "wants out"Prisoner's dilemma: The prisoner's dilemma is a canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two purely "rational" individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests [citation needed] to do so. It was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher working at RAND in 1950. Albert W. Tucker formalized the game with prison sentence rewards and gave it the name "prisoner's dilemma" (Poundstone, 1992), presenting it as follows: Two memb… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 13/04/15 08:28 PM |
| 7 | The feminist who is sticking up for men. Christina Hoff Sommers is attracting attention for speaking out against untruths in the gender equality debate. It all seems a bit superficial though.Equity and gender feminism: Equity feminism and gender feminism are two kinds of feminism that were first defined by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism? She describes equity feminism as having the ideological objective of equal legal rights for men and women and gender feminism as having the objective of counteracting sexism and patriarchic social structures in everyday social and cultural practice. Sommers is herself a strong advocate of what she calls equity fem… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/15 12:33 PM |
| 2 | Welcome to the McJungle Xpost r/justicepornExperimenter's bias: In experimental science, experimenter's bias, also known as research bias, is a subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. For example, it occurs when scientists unconsciously affect subjects in experiments. Interesting: Funding bias | Media bias | Index of philosophy of science articles | Index of psychology articles Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PussyPassDenied | 13/04/15 05:29 AM |
| 5 | Scientist Bill Nye Buying Feminist Bulls**t: "50% of the people are women, so 50% of the scientists ougt to be women."Matt Taylor (scientist): Matt Taylor (born 1973 ) is a British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency. He is best known to the public for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He is Project Scientist of the Rosetta mission. Image i Interesting: Matt (name) | Manor Park, London | University of Liverpool Parent commenter can toggle NSF… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/15 04:46 AM |
| 1 | Feminist thinks she can assault men w/o repercussions. She's right!Abortion in the Republic of Ireland: Abortion in Ireland is illegal unless it occurs as the result of a medical intervention performed to save the life of the mother. The availability of abortion services can be even more restricted in the absence of a readily available method of determining the circumstances in which an abortion might be lawfully obtained. Abortion is a controversial issue in Irish politics and five national referendums have been held on the topic in the last 30 years. [clarifi… | /r/PussyPass | 12/04/15 05:09 PM |
| 1 | Missing words "rape" and "sexual assault": Infamous School Teacher Has Been Married for 10 Years. But Who She’s Married to is Raising Eyebrows.Child grooming: Child grooming is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, and sometimes the family, to lower the child's inhibitions for child sexual abuse. It lures minors into trafficking of children, illicit businesses such as child prostitution, or the production of child pornography. It is a behavior that is characteristic of paedophilia. This crime has been proscribed in various ways since the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women a… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/15 03:06 PM |
| 1 | Feminists Don't Care About EqualityThird-wave feminism: Third-wave feminism refers to several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the history of feminism are a subject of debate, but are generally marked as beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present. The movement arose partially as a response to the perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives and movements created by second-wave feminism during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, and the perception that women are of "many co… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/15 06:45 PM |
| 2 | Did this girl set me up? Story insideAmniocentesis: Amniocentesis (also referred to as amniotic fluid test or AFT) is a medical procedure used in prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities and fetal infections, and also used for sex determination in which a small amount of amniotic fluid, which contains fetal tissues, is sampled from the amniotic sac surrounding a developing fetus, and the fetal DNA is examined for genetic abnormalities. The most common reason to have an "amnio" is to determine whether a baby has certain genet… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/15 04:26 PM |
| 1 | Part II to My New MRP AdventurePrisoner's dilemma: The prisoner's dilemma is a canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two purely "rational" individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests [citation needed] to do so. It was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher working at RAND in 1950. Albert W. Tucker formalized the game with prison sentence rewards and gave it the name "prisoner's dilemma" (Poundstone, 1992), presenting it as follows: Two memb… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 11/04/15 04:11 PM |
| 1 | Hillary Clinton 'to announce 2016 presidential campaign' - Get ready for cries of "SEXISM!" whenever she gets criticized.Political compass: The political compass is a multi-axis political model, used by the website of the same name, to label or organize political thought on two dimensions. In its selection and representation of these two dimensions, it is similar to the Nolan Chart and Pournelle Chart. The term "Political Compass" is claimed as a trademark by the British website Pace News Limited, which uses responses to a set of 61 propositions to rate political ideology on two axes: Economic (Left-Right) and Soc… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/15 10:01 AM |
| 1 | Debunking Men's RightsStella Nickell: Stella Nickell (born August 7, 1943) is an American woman who was sentenced to 90 years in prison for product tampering after she poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, resulting in the deaths of her husband Bruce and of Susan Snow. Her May 1988 conviction and prison sentence were the first under federal product tampering laws instituted after the Chicago Tylenol murders. Interesting: Gregg Olsen | House Rules (novel) | Nickell Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete.… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/15 12:59 AM |
| 2 | Help me create posters to spread awareness.University of Missouri: The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, University of Missouri–Columbia, or simply Missouri) is a public research university located in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 1839, the university was founded in Columbia as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River. As the largest university in Missouri, MU enrolls 35,441 students offering over 300 degree programs in 19 academic colleges in the 2014–15 year. The university is the flagship of th… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/15 06:28 PM |
| 1 | Violence against men on the rise – surveyErin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/15 02:54 PM |
| 9 | 15-honest-questions-the-person-you-marry-should-be-able-to-answerQuixotism: Quixotism (/kwɪkˈsɒtɪzəm/ or /kiːˈhoʊtɪzəm/) (adj. quixotic) is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty and romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. It also serves to describe an idealism without regard to practicality. An impulsive person or act might be regarded as quixotic. Quixotism is usually related to "over-idealism", meaning an idealism that doesn't take consequence or absurdity into account. It is also related to naïve … | /r/MGTOW | 09/04/15 11:25 PM |
| 2 | A majority of Americans support gender equality — so why don’t they identify as feminists? A new poll shows only 18% of people call themselves feminists -- which means they really don't get feminism (!)Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln i/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentuc… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/15 06:39 PM |
| 0 | Did this girl set me up? Story insidePregnancy test: A pregnancy test attempts to determine whether a woman is pregnant. Markers that indicate pregnancy are found in urine and blood, and pregnancy tests require sampling one of these substances. The first of these markers to be discovered, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), was discovered in 1930 to be produced by the trophoblast cells of the fertilised ova (eggs). While hCG is a reliable marker of pregnancy, it cannot be detected until after implantation: this results in false neg… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/15 04:34 PM |
| 2 | [x-post /r/quityourbullshit] Sarah Silverman called out by comedy club owner for lying about gender pay discriminationDunning–Kruger effect: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others. As David Dunning and Just… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/15 02:07 PM |
| 5 | Woman claims "immaculate conception", Judge denies the pussy pass.Section 3. Virginal conception of article Immaculate Conception: The doctrine of the immaculate conception (Mary being conceived free from original sin) is not to be confused with her virginal conception of her son Jesus. This misunderstanding of the term immaculate conception is frequently met in the mass media. Catholics believe that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself but was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/04/15 06:34 AM |
| 1 | Reddit, I need some help with this, how can I ask for DNA test without sounding rude?Trust, but verify: Trust, but verify is a form of advice given which recommends that while a source of information might be considered reliable, one should perform additional research to verify that such information is accurate, or trustworthy. The original Russian proverb is a short rhyme which states, Доверяй, но проверяй (doveryai, no proveryai). Interesting: Distrust | National technical means of verification | Suzanne Massie | Stellar black hole Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. W… | /r/MensRights | 08/04/15 11:24 AM |
| 1 | Reddit CEO Ellen Pao bans all salary negotiations because "women tend to be intimidated by the negotiating process compared to their male counterparts."Company union: A company or "yellow" union is a worker organisation which is dominated or influenced by an employer, and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, article 2). They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2), due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. Company unions persist in many countries, particularly with authoritarian governme… | /r/MensRights | 08/04/15 09:14 AM |
| 1 | Personal experience with crazy womenSuccubus: A succubus is a female demon or supernatural entity in folklore (traced back to medieval legend) that appears in dreams and takes the form of a woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. The male counterpart is the incubus. Religious traditions hold that repeated sexual activity with a succubus may result in the deterioration of health or even death. In modern representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive se… | /r/PussyPass | 08/04/15 03:51 AM |
| 5 | Men in the U.S. special ops forces are skeptical that women can meet the physical and mental demands of the job; they fear lowered standards for womenSection 5. Selection and training of article Korps Commandotroepen: The KCT accepts applications from both actively serving army personnel (infantry) and civilians. And conform the recruitment guidelines of the Royal Netherlands Army, accepts both men and women to join their ranks in special operations, but due to the extreme conditions during the selection, it has been deemed impossible for women to complete the entire trajectory. Phase zero In order to be considered for the KCT, all civilian a… | /r/MensRights | 08/04/15 01:13 AM |
| 1 | False Rape Accusations which led to Uber Driver being imprisoned for 5 months are finally droppedBlood libel: Blood libel (also blood accusation) is an accusation that Jews kidnapped and murdered the children of Christians to use their blood as part of their religious rituals during Jewish holidays. Historically, these claims—alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration—have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews. Blood libels typically say that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover, although this element was allegedly absent in the earliest ca… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/15 08:05 PM |
| 1 | Don't know how to fix my mind... Starting to lose hope. Would like some objective perspectives from TRPers.Four Noble Truths: The Four Noble Truths express the basic orientation of Buddhism: this mundane life, which is continuously repeated by rebirth, is not the place to be; how do we get out of it? The truths are as follows: Dukkha: all temporary things and states are unsatisfying; The start of dukkha: yet we crave and cling to these things and states; thereby, we're continuously reborn; The end of dukkha: if we stop craving and clinging, we won't be reborn; How to end dukkha: by following the Nobl… | /r/askTRP | 07/04/15 07:11 AM |
| 1 | CEO of Reddit: Ellen Pao says she "weeds out" candidates who don’t embrace her priority of building a gender-balanced and multiracial team. She has also has removed salary negotiations from the hiring process because studies show "women don’t fare as well as men."Bias blind spot: The bias blind spot is the cognitive bias of recognizing the impact of biases on the judgement of others, while failing to see the impact of biases on one's own judgement. The term was created by Emily Pronin, a social psychologist from Princeton University's Department of Psychology, with colleagues Daniel Lin and Lee Ross. The bias blind spot is named after the visual blind spot. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Naïve</sup> <sup>cynicism</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Naïve</sup> <sup>re… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/15 03:09 AM |
| 3 | CEO of Reddit: Ellen Pao says she "weeds out" candidates who don’t embrace her priority of building a gender-balanced and multiracial team. She has also has removed salary negotiations from the hiring process because studies show "women don’t fare as well as men."Buddy Fletcher: Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher, Jr. (born December 19, 1965) is a former hedge fund manager and founder of the Fletcher Foundation. His fund is in bankruptcy, and he is accused of civil fraud. He began his career as a quantitative equity trader at Bear Stearns and later worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Fletcher, who is African American, sued Kidder Peabody for racial discrimination. Although his racial discrimination claims were dismissed, he eventually won an arbitration award of US$1… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/15 07:53 PM |
| 1 | ButtHurt Magazine - Issue 02Balkanization: Balkanization, or Balkanisation, is a geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with one another. It is considered pejorative by some. Image i - The Balkans from 1796 to 2008 Interesting: Balkinization (blog) | Patria Grande | South America | Splinternet Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or les… | /r/MGTOW | 06/04/15 07:40 PM |
| 1 | CEO of Reddit: Ellen Pao says she "weeds out" candidates who don’t embrace her priority of building a gender-balanced and multiracial team. She has also has removed salary negotiations from the hiring process because studies show "women don’t fare as well as men."Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal: Widespread organised child sexual abuse took place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, between 1997 and 2013. Local investigations into the abuse began in the 1990s, although some reports were never finalised or made public by the authorities. In 2010, five men of Pakistani heritage were found guilty of a series of sexual offences against girls as young as twelve. A subsequent investigation by The Times reported that the child sex exploitation was… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/15 06:29 PM |
| 1 | CEO of Reddit: Ellen Pao says she "weeds out" candidates who don’t embrace her priority of building a gender-balanced and multiracial team. She has also has removed salary negotiations from the hiring process because studies show "women don’t fare as well as men."2011 Norway attacks: The 2011 Norway attacks were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp in the Oslo region on 22 July 2011, claiming a total of 77 lives. The first was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of Norway, at 15:25:22 (CEST). The bomb was made from a mixture of fertiliser and fuel oil and placed in the back of a car. The car was pl… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/15 04:29 PM |
| 1 | Jessica Valenti: 'Inconsistencies in Jackie's story do not mean that she wasn't raped at UVA'The Hole (Scientology): The Hole is the unofficial nickname of a facility operated by the Church of Scientology on Gold Base, its compound near the town of Hemet in Riverside County, California. Dozens of its senior executives have reportedly been confined within the building for months or years. It consists of a set of double-wide trailers within a Scientology compound, joined together to form a suite of offices which were formerly used by the Church's international management team. According t… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/15 01:43 PM |
| 2 | Alpha Males, Beta Males and AMOGsThe Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (ISBN 0-140-16772-2) is a popular science book by Matt Ridley exploring the evolutionary psychology of sexual selection. The Red Queen was one of seven books shortlisted for the 1994 Rhône-Poulenc Prize (now known as the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books), that was eventually won by Steve Jones' The Language of the Genes. The Red Queen argues that few, if any, aspects of human nature c… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 06/04/15 12:45 AM |
| 1 | Just broke up with a girl. She beat herself up. Started scraping a glass she broke against herself, broke my new glasses, and called to tell me that she filed a police report on me and they came by to take pictures. What the fuck do I do?Borderline personality disorder: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, emotional intensity disorder, or borderline type in the ICD-10) is a cluster-B personality disorder, the essential feature of which is a pattern of marked impulsivity and instability of affects, interpersonal relationships and self image. The pattern is present by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations and contexts. Other symptoms usually include intense fe… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/15 06:19 PM |
| 2 | TKO!Knockout: A knockout (KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking. A full knockout is considered any legal strike or combination thereof that renders an opponent unable to continue fighting. The term is often associated with a sudden traumatic loss of consciousness caused by a physical blow. Single powerful blows to the head (p… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 05/04/15 05:14 PM |
| 7 | If you’ve been following the media aftermath of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s failed discrimination lawsuit, you may be forgiven for thinking that Pao won. She didn’t, but the mainstream media has nevertheless spent this week spinning the tale of a righteous crusader fighting against a sexist status quo.Snipe hunt: A snipe hunt or fool's errand is a type of practical joke that involves experienced people making fun of credulous newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task. The snipe hunt may be assigned to a target as part of a process of hazing. A snipe hunt is a specific type of "wild-goose chase", where a person embarks on an impossible search. Where a wild-goose chase may be accidental, a snipe hunt is always initiated by a second person, as a prank. Interesting: Snipe | Elbow g… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/15 12:40 PM |
| 3 | If you’ve been following the media aftermath of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s failed discrimination lawsuit, you may be forgiven for thinking that Pao won. She didn’t, but the mainstream media has nevertheless spent this week spinning the tale of a righteous crusader fighting against a sexist status quo.Snipe hunt: A snipe hunt or fool's errand is a type of practical joke that involves experienced people making fun of credulous newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task. The snipe hunt may be assigned to a target as part of a process of hazing. A snipe hunt is a specific type of "wild-goose chase", where a person embarks on an impossible search. Where a wild-goose chase may be accidental, a snipe hunt is always initiated by a second person, as a prank. Interesting: Snipe | Elbow g… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/15 12:37 PM |
| 1 | The End of Gender Roles: Doctor and anthropology professor Melvin Konner explores the rise and coming decline of male supremacy.Marie Noe: Marie Noe (born August 23, 1928) is an American serial killer. She was convicted in June 1999 of murdering eight of her children. Between 1949 and 1968, eight of the ten Noe children died of mysterious causes which were then attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. All eight children were healthy at birth and were developing normally. Two other children died of natural causes. Noe pled guilty in June 1999 to eight counts of second-degree murder, and was sentenced to twenty years' p… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/15 05:50 AM |
| 1 | The End of Gender Roles: Doctor and anthropology professor Melvin Konner explores the rise and coming decline of male supremacy.Diane Downs: Elizabeth Diane Frederickson Downs (born August 7, 1955) is an American woman convicted of the May 1983 murder of her daughter. She is convicted of shooting her three children, killing one and seriously wounding two. Following the shooting, Downs told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children. She was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison. Downs briefly escaped in 1987 and was recaptured. She is the subject of a book by Ann Rule and a made-… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/15 05:47 AM |
| 1 | Fight over circumcision with my soSection 7. Masturbation prevention of article John Harvey Kellogg: Kellogg worked on the rehabilitation of masturbators, often employing extreme measures, even mutilation, on both sexes. He was an advocate of circumcising young boys to curb masturbation and applying phenol to a young woman's clitoris. In his Plain Facts for Old and Young, he wrote: further and He also recommended, to prevent children from this "solitary vice", bandaging or tying their hands, covering their genitals with patented… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/15 09:42 PM |
| 1 | Over 100 people were killed by the police in the US in March alone. Nearly all of them were male.Rules of engagement: Rules of Engagement (ROE) are rules or directives to military forces (including individuals) that define the circumstances, conditions, degree, and manner in which force, or actions which might be construed as provocative, may be applied. They provide authorization for and/or limits on, among other things, the use of force and the employment of certain specific capabilities. In some nations, ROE have the status of guidance to military forces, while in other nations, ROE are … | /r/MensRights | 04/04/15 09:27 PM |
| 1 | Studies show that "in households where the husband earns more money, both spouses share in the financial decision making. But in marriages where the wife brings home a bigger paycheck, the woman is twice as likely as her husband to make all the financial decisions."Analogy: Analogy (from Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, "proportion" ) is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general. … | /r/MensRights | 04/04/15 05:21 PM |
| 2 | I had an idea...“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/15 12:59 PM |
| 1 | Start Making Awesome GoalsSMART criteria: SMART is a mnemonic acronym, giving criteria to guide in the setting of objectives, for example in project management, employee-performance management and personal development. The letters S and M usually mean specific and measurable. The other letters have meant different things to different authors, as described below. Additional letters have been added by some authors. SMART criteria are commonly attributed to Peter Drucker's management by objectives concept. The first-known u… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 04/04/15 12:23 AM |
| 1 | Court documents reveal 13 alleged rape victims might have colluded with each other and falsified their stories to police investigators.The Wacky Molestation Adventure: "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 64th episode of the series overall. "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" originally aired in the United States on December 13, 2000 on Comedy Central. The episode follows the children of South Park, who remove all adults from the town by claiming that they molested them. With the whole town to themselves, they create a new society, bu… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/15 03:26 PM |
| 1 | Gamergate Proves Majority of Male Gamers Are RapistsPoe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that, without a clear indicator of an author's intention, it is often impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of such extremism. Someone will likely mistake the parody for a genuine article, or vice-versa. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or le… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/15 02:36 PM |
| 5 | Court documents reveal 13 alleged rape victims might have colluded with each other and falsified their stories to police investigators.Salem witch trials: For the 1878 lawsuit, see Salem witchcraft trial (1878) The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in several towns in the Province of Massachusetts Bay: Salem Village (now Danvers),… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/15 01:29 PM |
| 2 | She's pregnantJarasandha: As per the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Jarasandha (Sanskrit: जरासंध) was the king of Magadha. He was a descendant of the king Brihadratha, the founder of the Barhadratha dynasty of Magadha. He was also a great devotee of the Hindu god Shiva. But he is generally held in negative light owing to his enmity with the Yadava clan in the Mahabharata. Image i - Bhima Slays Jarasandha. Interesting: Jarasandha (film) | Magadha Kingdom | Legendary kings of Magadha | Roopa (actress) Parent commenter… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 03/04/15 10:53 AM |
| 1 | After ‘six months of hell,’ student accused of rape acquitted by juryAnecdotal evidence: The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. In cases where small numbers of anecdotes are presented, there is a larger chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases. Anecdotal evidence is considered dubious support of a generalized claim; it is, however, within the scope of scientific method for claims regarding particular instances. Anecdotal evidence is no more than a type descriptio… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/15 06:23 PM |
| 1 | Over 100 people were killed by the police in the US in March alone. Nearly all of them were male.Sex differences in crime: Sex differences in crime are differences between men and women as the perpetrators and/or victims of crime. Such studies may belong to fields such as criminology or sociobiology (which attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship between biological factors, in this case sex, and human behaviors), etc. Despite the difficulty to interpret them, crime statistics may provide a way to investigate such a relationship, whose possible existence would be interesting from a gend… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/15 07:15 AM |
| 1 | Mantra against overthinkingSerenity Prayer: The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. The best-known form is: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Interesting: Fred R. Shapiro | Re-ac-tor | Jonathan Morris (priest) | Reinhold Niebuhr Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magi… | /r/askTRP | 01/04/15 08:31 PM |
| 2 | What Are "Daddy Issues?"Electra complex: In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra complex occurs in the third — phallic stage (ages 3–6) — of five psychosexual development stages: (i) the Oral, (ii) the Ana… | /r/askTRP | 01/04/15 05:50 PM |
| 1 | The Heart SymbolSection 4. Connection with the heart symbol of article Silphium: There has been some speculation about the connection between silphium and the traditional heart shape (♥). Silver coins from Cyrene of the 6–5th century BCE bear a similar design, sometimes accompanied by a silphium plant and understood to represent its seed or seed pod. Contemporary writings help tie silphium to sexuality and love. Silphium appears in Pausanias' Description of Greece in a story of the Dioscuri staying at a house b… | /r/AlreadyRed | 01/04/15 10:45 AM |
| 1 | TRP Interview adviceMulti-level marketing: Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a marketing strategy in which the sales force is compensated not only for sales they generate, but also for the sales of the other salespeople that they recruit. This recruited sales force is referred to as the participant's "downline", and can provide multiple levels of compensation. Other terms used for MLM include pyramid selling, network marketing, and referral marketing. According to the US FTC, some companies that use multi-level market… | /r/askTRP | 01/04/15 01:45 AM |
| 1 | Women’s' longer life expectancy was a justification for higher disability awards, until EU struck it down (Spanish article)Retirement age: This article lists the statutory retirement age in different countries. In some contexts, the retirement age is the age at which a person is expected or required to cease work and is usually the age at which they may be entitled to receive superannuation or other government benefits. Interesting: Retirement in Europe | Mandatory retirement | Swiss referendums, 1988 | Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/15 12:32 AM |
| 1 | Female university teacher destroys feminists claims in a short videoSection 7. Rainbow plans of article United States color-coded war plans: Japan had used the opportunity afforded by World War I to establish itself as a major power and a strategic rival in the Pacific Ocean. Following World War I, most American officials and planners considered a war with Japan to be highly likely. It was reverted when the civilian government temporarily halted the program of military expansion, which was not to resume until 1931. War Plan Orange was the longest and most-detail… | /r/MensRights | 31/03/15 11:31 PM |
| 4 | Woman gains 65 pounds after getting married, forces husband to get Viagra after he is no longer attracted to her.Health at Every Size: Health at Every Size (HAES) is an idea that "supports people in adopting health habits for the sake of health and well-being (rather than weight control).". It hopes to remove discrimination of obesity and improve standard of living for people who are overweight. HAES believes that traditional restrictive dieting does not result in sustained weight loss for some people, HAES suggests that this method is not always healthful. Despite significant evidence to the contrary, HAE… | /r/MensRights | 31/03/15 08:19 PM |
| 1 | "Women are cum-dumpsters." Is that statement misogynistic - and if so, should I be able to say so in r/theredpill?Loaded question: A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question which contains a controversial or unjustified assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt). Aside from being an informal fallacy depending on usage, such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda. The traditional example is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, they will admi… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/03/15 06:42 PM |
| 1 | Bachelor Nation: 70% of Men Aged 20-34 Are Not MarriedSection 19. 19th century of article Women in the workforce: Women have worked at agricultural tasks since ancient times, and continue to do so around the world. The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries changed the nature of work in Europe and other countries of the Western world. Working for a wage, and eventually a salary, became part of urban life. Initially, women were to be found doing even the hardest physical labour, including working as "hurriers" hauling heavy … | /r/MensRights | 30/03/15 06:06 PM |
| 1 | Indoctrination. "Looking at gender discrimination through my son's eyes" Wonder what dad thinks.Manon Rhéaume: Manon Rhéaume (born February 24, 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game. In 1992 Rhéaume signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL, appearing in preseason exhibition games in 1992 and 1993. She spent five years in professional minor leagues, playing for a total of seven teams… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/15 02:33 PM |
| 2 | How technology will ultimately favors mgtowUncanny valley: The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of aesthetics which holds that when features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural beings, it causes a response of revulsion among some observers. The "valley" refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of beings as subjects move toward a healthy, natural likeness described in a function of a subject's aesthetic acceptability. Examples can be found in the fields of robotics and 3D computer animation, among other… | /r/MGTOW | 30/03/15 07:40 AM |
| 1 | "Women have always been the primary victims of war."Milgram experiment: The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in grea… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/15 11:09 PM |
| 2 | Indoctrination. "Looking at gender discrimination through my son's eyes" Wonder what dad thinks.Manon Rhéaume: Manon Rhéaume (born February 24, 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game. In 1992 Rhéaume signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL, appearing in preseason exhibition games in 1992 and 1993. She spent five years in professional minor leagues, playing for a total of seven teams… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/15 08:26 PM |
| 1 | Female university teacher destroys feminists claims in a short videoSection 3. Total deaths of article World War II casualties: Figures for the individual nations are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. Population in 1939 is taken from Population Statistics website. War losses are for the national boundaries of 1939. Military casualties include deaths of regular military forces from combat as well as non-combat causes. Partisan and resistance fighter deaths are included with military losses. The deaths of prisoners of war in captivity and personnel missing i… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/15 06:21 PM |
| 2 | Petition for the Independent to take disciplinary action against the publisher(s) of this misandrist article, "White men should never hold elected position in British universities again" (March 27, 2015).Hate speech laws in the United Kingdom: Hate speech laws in the United Kingdom are found in several statutes. Expressions of hatred toward someone on account of that person's colour, race, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origin, religion, or sexual orientation is forbidden. Any communication which is threatening or abusive, and is intended to harass, alarm, or distress someone is forbidden. The penalties for hate speech include fines, imprisonment, or both. Interesting: H… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/15 08:51 AM |
| 1 | Do Traditional Masculine Gender Roles Hurt Men and Make Them Feel Inadequate?David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/03/15 06:55 AM |
| 1 | Here's an ideaTroll (Internet): In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. This sense of the word troll and its associated verb trolling are associated with Inte… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/15 04:00 AM |
| 1 | What do you think of a potential compulsory paternity test at birth?Misattributed paternity: Misattributed paternity is the situation when a child’s putative father is not the child's biological father. Overall, the incidence of misattributed paternity ranges from about 1% to 2%, though it may be considerably higher in certain populations. Genetic testing for purposes other than establishing paternity has the potential to unintentionally yield information regarding a child’s paternity. This generally occurs in two different scenarios: the first occurs in searche… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/03/15 03:14 AM |
| 1 | Boy Got a Haircut Like His Military Step-Brother, School Suspended HimArgument from fallacy: Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), fallacy fallacy, fallacist's fallacy, and bad reasons fallacy. Fallacious arguments can arrive at true conclusions, so this is an informal fallacy of relevance. Interesting: Appeal to pity | God of the gaps | List of fallacies | Relativist fallacy Parent commenter can… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/15 11:48 PM |
| 1 | Celestial objects as a metaphor for humans and the variety of potential relationships between themAres: Ares /ˈɛəriːz/ (Ancient Greek: Ἄρης [árɛːs], literal meaning of "battle") is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war, in contrast to his sister the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship. The Greeks were ambivalent toward Ares: although he embodied the physical valor necessary for success in… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/03/15 05:28 PM |
| 1 | I have a problem with your reading list... It's too short.Monster (manga): Monster (モンスター, Monsutā ?, sometimes referred to as "Naoki Urasawa's Monster" [citation needed]) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was published by Shogakukan in their Big Comic Original magazine between 1994 and 2001, with the chapters collected and reprinted into 18 tankōbon volumes. The story revolves around Kenzō Tenma, a Japanese surgeon living in Germany whose life enters turmoil after getting himself involved with Johan Liebert, one o… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/15 11:54 AM |
| 1 | why is it OK to make fun of bald men?Sean Connery: Sir Thomas Sean Connery (/ˈʃɔːn ˈkɒnəri/; born 25 August 1930) is a British actor and producer from Scotland who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000, and received the Kennedy Center Honors in the US. Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films bet… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/15 01:01 AM |
| 2 | Woman throws acid on council gardener's face because his strimmer is too loud. No jail time.Geneva Protocol (1924): The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes was a proposal to the League of Nations presented by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and his French counterpart Édouard Herriot. It set up compulsory arbitration of disputes, and a created a method to determine who was the aggressor in international conflicts. All legal disputes between nations would be submitted to the World Court. It called for a disarmament conference in 1925. Any governm… | /r/PussyPass | 28/03/15 12:59 AM |
| 4 | Woman annoyed by sound of gardener's grass strimmer threw sulphuric acid in his faceSection 3. Acidic drain openers of article Drain cleaner: Acid drain cleaners usually contain sulfuric acid (sulphuric acid) at high concentrations. It can dissolve proteins and fats via hydrolysis and since sulfuric acid at high concentrations also has a strong dehydrating property, it readily dissolves tissue paper inside pipes through dehydration as well. According to a manufacturer, potential hazards include violent reaction with water and the production of explosive hydrogen vapors upon con… | /r/MensRights | 27/03/15 05:11 PM |
| 1 | in /r/AskFeminists a poster gives a brief history of NOW's campaign to make draft laws equal between men and womenSection 10. Opposition to the ERA of article Equal Rights Amendment: Opponents of the ERA focused on traditional gender roles, such as how men do the fighting in wartime. They pointed out that the amendment would eliminate the men-only draft requirement and guarantee the possibility that women would be subject to conscription and be required to have military combat roles in future wars if it were passed. Defense of traditional gender roles proved to be a useful tactic. In Illinois, supporters of… | /r/MensRights | 27/03/15 03:57 PM |
| 1 | If a woman (or anyone) tells me to hit them, am I legally allowed to hit them or is it still assault even though they gave me permission?Conkers: Conkers is a traditional children's game in Britain and Ireland played using the seeds of Horse Chestnut trees—the name 'conker' is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns striking each other's conker until one breaks. Image i - A selection of fresh conkers from a horse-chestnut tree. Interesting: Del Palmer | Conker's Bad Fur Day | Aesculus | National Cycle Route 63 Parent co… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 27/03/15 12:06 PM |
| 1 | Woman denied bail after squirting breast milk on an officer searching her.Quantum meruit: Quantum meruit is a Latin phrase meaning "what one has earned". In the context of contract law, it means something along the lines of "reasonable value of services". In the United States, the elements of quantum meruit are determined by state common law. For example, to state a claim for unjust enrichment in New York, a plaintiff must allege that (1) defendant was enriched; (2) the enrichment was at plaintiff's expense; and (3) the circumstances were such that equity and good con… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 27/03/15 07:19 AM |
| 1 | Predictable results for Japan as fatherlessness increases.Educational Studies in Mathematics: Educational Studies in Mathematics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal within the field of mathematics education. Founded by Hans Freudenthal, it first appeared in 1968. Published by Springer, the journal normally appears in 3 annual volumes, each consisting of 3 issues. The journal is paginated by volume. According to the official description of the journal, it "emphasizes high-level articles that go beyond local or national interest," and a typical article… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/15 08:57 PM |
| 7 | Just Feminism.Gender equality: Gender equality, also known as sex equality, gender egalitarianism, sexual equality or equality of the genders, is the view that men and women should receive equal treatment, and should not be discriminated against based on gender. This is the objective of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which seeks to create equality in law and in social situations, such as in democratic activities and securing equal pay for equal work. The related topic of rights is t… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/15 02:31 PM |
| 1 | Just Feminism.Feminism: Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work,… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/15 01:48 PM |
| 1 | Female default gender?Sexual differentiation in humans: Sexual differentiation in humans is the process of development of sex differences in humans. It is defined as the development of phenotypic structures consequent to the action of hormones produced following gonadal determination. Sexual differentiation includes development of different genitalia and the internal genital tracts, breasts, body hair, and plays a role in gender identification. The development of sexual differences begins with the XY sex-determinatio… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/15 12:18 PM |
| 1 | Do BluePill men truly believe they are the ‘best their girlfriend/wife ever had”?Madonna–whore complex: In psychoanalytic literature, a Madonna–whore complex is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship. First identified by Sigmund Freud, under the rubric of psychic impotence, this psychological complex is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased prostitutes. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (the whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner (the Madonna). Freu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/03/15 02:37 AM |
| 1 | Woman throws molotov cocktail at pro-life activists outside Planned ParenthoodAnti-abortion violence: Anti-abortion violence is violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion. Incidents of violence have included destruction of property, in the form of vandalism; crimes against people, including kidnapping, stalking, assault, attempted murder, and murder; and crimes affecting both people and property, including arson and bombings. Anti-abortion violence is most frequently committed in the United States, [citation needed] though it has also o… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/15 12:59 AM |
| 1 | How do I put myself through a rite of passage?United States Merchant Marine: The United States Merchant Marine is the fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. The Merchant Marine is responsible for transporting cargo and passengers during peacetime. In time of war, the Merchant Marine is capable of being an auxiliary to the Navy, and can be called upon to deli… | /r/askTRP | 25/03/15 09:37 PM |
| 1 | Feminist leaning blue pillers, our dna records show that hypergamy is natural and normal. It wasn't so much the case during patriarchy, which seems to be a short period during which women decided the one man one woman system was better for them, now women are dismantling that ...Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism): "Lost boys" is a term used for young men who have been excommunicated or pressured to leave polygamous Mormon fundamentalism groups such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). They are pressured to leave by adult men to reduce competition for wives within such sects, usually when they are between the ages of 13 and 21. Image i Interesting: Mormon fundamentalism | Human sex ratio | Religion and children Parent commenter can tog… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/03/15 08:30 PM |
| 1 | Kirsten Gillibrand: Don't Blame the Victim of a Rape That Never Happened for Reporting a Rape That Never HappenedAsch conformity experiments: In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm were a series of laboratory experiments directed by Solomon Asch in the 1950s that demonstrated the degree to which an individual's own opinions are influenced by those of a majority group. The methodology developed by Asch has been utilised by many researchers and the paradigm is in use in present day social psychology. The paradigm has been used to investigate the relationship between conformity an… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/15 06:48 PM |
| 4 | Wow...just wow“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/15 03:18 PM |
| 2 | Do women want chaste men?Chastity: Chastity is sexual behavior of a man or woman that is acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of their culture, civilization or religion. In the Western world, the term has become closely associated (and is often used interchangeably) with sexual abstinence, especially before marriage. Image i - Allegory of chastity by Hans Memling Interesting: Chastity belt | Chastity piercing | Chastity (soundtrack) | Chastity (film) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also dele… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/03/15 02:50 PM |
| 1 | "Basically we are the pure ones, without contamination. The contaminate is the Y."Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author's intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 25/03/15 02:23 PM |
| 2 | "Basically we are the pure ones, without contamination. The contaminate is the Y."X-inactivation: X-inactivation (also called lyonization) is a process by which one of the two copies of the X chromosome present in female mammals is inactivated. The inactive X chromosome is silenced by its being packaged in such a way that it has a transcriptionally inactive structure called heterochromatin. As nearly all female mammals have two X chromosomes, X-inactivation prevents them from having twice as many X chromosome gene products as males, who only possess a single copy of the X chr… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/15 05:05 AM |
| 1 | NSW Police Force and the Duluth Model: Report states that every single female who committed a DV homicide in NSW in past decade was a domestic violence victim and not a domestic violence abuser.Katherine Knight: Katherine Mary Knight (born 24 October 1955) is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Charles Thomas Price (born 6 January 1955), in October 2001, and is currently detained in Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre. Interesting: Canterbury Martyrs | Mariticide | October 24 | Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on commen… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/15 03:30 AM |
| 1 | When a SJW and a libertarian were set to have a debate at a college, they created a "safe space" (with Play-Doh and puppy videos) for women to attend instead out of fear the libertarian might be critical of rape culture.Apologetics: Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of information. Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their faith against critics and recommended their faith to outsiders were called apologists. Image i Interesting: Christian apologetics | Ecumenical apologetics | Evidential apologetics | Presuppositional apologetics Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete… | /r/MensRights | 24/03/15 02:58 PM |
| 2 | Woman runs into store cussing out patrons and filming them, gets rocked by other femalePhotography and the law: Photography tends to be protected by the law through copyright and moral rights. Photography tends to be restricted by the law through miscellaneous criminal offenses. Publishing certain photographs can be restricted by privacy law. Photography of certain subject matter can be generally restricted in the interests of public morality and the protection of children. Even the least private thing that exist on Earth (landscapes) aren't free to photograph because of passers w… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 24/03/15 12:16 PM |
| 1 | Men/women and the vote.Suffrage in Australia: Suffrage in Australia refers to the right to vote (usually referred to as franchise) for people living in Australia, including all its six component states (before 1901 called colonies) and territories, as well as local councils. The colonies of Australia began to grant universal male suffrage during the 1850s and women's suffrage followed between the 1890s and 1900s. Image i Interesting: Women's suffrage in Australia | Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 | Queensland Women's … | /r/MensRights | 24/03/15 10:16 AM |
| 1 | Why is that girls like only like certain Disney Princesses?Disney Princess: Disney Princess is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company. Created by Disney Consumer Products chairman Andy Mooney in the late 1990s, the franchise features a line-up of fictional female heroines who have appeared in various Disney franchises. The franchise doesn't actually include all noted princesses from any Disney media as its name suggests, but only certain members are commonly used, mainly from animated films. The eleven current (2015) members of the franchise… | /r/TRPOffTopic | 24/03/15 02:33 AM |
| 2 | Women see men as pure utilityAdolescent Egocentrism: Adolescent egocentrism is a term that David Elkind used to describe the phenomenon of adolescents' inability to distinguish between their perception of what others think about them and what people actually think in reality. David Elkind’s theory on adolescent egocentrism is drawn from Piaget’s theory on cognitive developmental stages, which argues that formal operations enable adolescents to construct imaginary situations and abstract thinking. Accordingly, adolescents ar… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/03/15 09:30 PM |
| 1 | TIL a CDC study claims more men are victims of partner abuse than women : todayilearnedSection 25. Modern slavery of article Mauritania: Slavery still persists in Mauritania. Though slavery was abolished in 1981, it was not illegal to own slaves until 2007. According to the US State Department 2010 Human Rights Report, abuses in Mauritania include: ...mistreatment of detainees and prisoners; security force impunity; lengthy pretrial detention; harsh prison conditions; arbitrary arrests; limits on freedom of the press and assembly; corruption; discrimination against women; female g… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/15 05:44 PM |
| 1 | Action Opportunity: End Illegal Discrimination Against Boy and Man Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence in AustraliaRosie Batty: Rosie Batty (born c. February 1962) is an Australian domestic violence campaigner and the 2015 Australian of the Year. In February 2014 Batty's 11-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father, Greg Anderson, at cricket practice in the outer Melbourne suburb of Tyabb. Batty made a statement to the media that "... family violence happens to everybody. No matter how nice your house is, how intelligent you are. It can happen to anyone, and everyone." Batty, who was born in England, sett… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/15 11:36 AM |
| 2 | Reaction of man when told his child support increased.Section 3. United States of article Cost of raising a child: $4,020 per person is the basic annual household income amount that is necessary to stay above poverty guidelines, according to the Department of Health and Human Services for 2013, whether there is one child or many children. Based on the 30 year average inflation rate of 3% increasing the annual cost every year, $72,360 {4020 avg x 18yrs} is the total basic cost of raising a child from birth in 2004 to age 18. $94,100 {5228 avg x 18yr… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/15 01:59 AM |
| 2 | Feminist at a fake "anti-feminst" troll protest inadvertently proves them right by assaulting them.Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author's intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PussyPass | 22/03/15 11:11 PM |
| 2 | Brown University sets up "safe space" for feminists who may be triggered by dissenting opinions.Fainting room: A fainting room was a private room, of which its main features/furniture were fainting couches, used during the Victorian era, to make women more comfortable during the home treatment of female hysteria. Fainting rooms were used for more privacy during home treatment pelvic massages. Such couches or sofas typically had an arm on one side only to permit easy access to a reclining position, although the sofa style most typically featured a back at one end so that the resulting posit… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/15 04:58 PM |
| 1 | Need serious help, some guidance or advice for young adultComparison of rugby league and rugby union: Comparison of rugby league and rugby union is possible because of the games' similarities and shared origins. Initially, following the 1895 split in rugby football, rugby league and rugby union differed in administration only. Soon, however, the rules of rugby league were modified, resulting in two distinctly different forms of rugby. After 100 years rugby union joined rugby league, and most other forms of football, as an openly professional sport. The… | /r/askTRP | 22/03/15 02:52 PM |
| 3 | Brown University sets up "safe space" for feminists who may be triggered by dissenting opinions.Fainting room: A fainting room was a private room, of which its main features/furniture were fainting couches, used during the Victorian era, to make women more comfortable during the home treatment of female hysteria. Fainting rooms were used for more privacy during home treatment pelvic massages. Such couches or sofas typically had an arm on one side only to permit easy access to a reclining position, although the sofa style most typically featured a back at one end so that the resulting posit… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/15 12:06 PM |
| 1 | Anti feminist movement (X-post from r/imgoimgtohellforthis)Duluth model: The Duluth Model or Domestic Abuse Intervention Project is a program developed to reduce domestic violence against women. It is named after Duluth, Minnesota, the city where it was developed. The program was largely founded by Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar. As of 2006 [update], the Duluth Model is the most common batterer intervention program used in the United States. It is based in feminist theory positing that "domestic violence is the result of patriarchal ideology in which me… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 22/03/15 07:40 AM |
| 1 | "Inside men’s rights groups"The Saturday Paper: The Saturday Paper is an Australian weekly newspaper, first published on 1 March 2014. It was notable for being launched in hard copy, as an online newspaper and in mobile news format. The paper is circulated throughout Australian capital cities and major regional centres. Its coverage of current affairs, culture and Australian politics has drawn criticism and praise from media commentators Image i Interesting: The Monthly | David Marr (journalist) | The Independent on Saturd… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/15 12:12 AM |
| 1 | MMSLP - why all the joking, boyish behavior?Myers–Briggs Type Indicator: The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers from the typological theories proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, and first published in his 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923 ). Jung theorized that there are four principal psychological fun… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 21/03/15 04:12 PM |
| 1 | What do I say when people quote the 1 in 5?Campus rape: Campus rape is the rape of a student attending an institute of higher learning, such as a college or university, though not all reported incidents of students being raped occur on campus property. The topic of campus rape might also include discussion of other sexual assaults. Rape on college campuses occurs against men and women of all ethnicities and social classes, and many victims totally or partly blame themselves for the occurrence, which may lead to underreporting. "Women gen… | /r/MensRights | 21/03/15 12:36 PM |
| 5 | Jokester 'Meninists' protest at university. Then get assaulted, and have their property damaged by angry women. (2:25) No one caresHanlon's razor: Hanlon's razor is a saying that recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor). Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. As an eponymous law, it may have been named after Robert J. Hanlon. There are also earlier sayings that convey the same idea. Interesting: Razor (philosophy) | Good faith | Hitchens's razor Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/15 10:27 PM |
| 1 | Anyone here have experience or knowledge of Vyvance?Exposure therapy: Exposure therapy is a technique in behavior therapy intended to treat anxiety disorders. It involves the exposure of the patient to the feared object or context without any danger, in order to overcome their anxiety. Procedurally it is similar to the fear extinction paradigm in rodent work. Numerous studies have demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of anxiety disorders such as PTSD and specific phobias. Exposure-based therapy may be effective in preventing the progre… | /r/askTRP | 20/03/15 07:15 PM |
| 1 | "What did we learn?" "Never say girl again" - Reddit/Twitch/League of Legends Drama.Redstockings: Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist group that was founded in January 1969. The word is a neologism, combining the term bluestocking, a pejorative term for intellectual women, with "red", for its association with the revolutionary left. Interesting: Kathie Sarachild | Cultural feminism | Redstocks | New York Radical Feminists Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | … | /r/MensRights | 20/03/15 05:22 PM |
| 1 | Male college student silenced by his professor for challenging the bogus "1 in 5 college women are raped" statistic and the idea of "rape culture"Campus rape: Campus rape is the rape of a student attending an institute of higher learning, such as a college or university, though not all reported incidents of students being raped occur on campus property. The topic of campus rape might also include discussion of other sexual assaults. Rape on college campuses occurs against men and women of all ethnicities and social classes, and many victims totally or partly blame themselves for the occurrence, which may lead to underreporting. "Women gen… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/15 02:52 PM |
| 1 | Male college student silenced by his professor for challenging the bogus "1 in 5 college women are raped" statistic and the idea of "rape culture"Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/15 05:47 AM |
| 1 | Should men have the right to decide when they want to be a father?Safe-haven law: Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state. "Safe-haven" laws typically let parents remain nameless to the court, often using a numbered bracelet system as the only means of linking the baby to the parent. Some states treat safe-haven surrenders … | /r/MensRights | 19/03/15 07:16 AM |
| 1 | Various Rantings on FeminismFriedrich Nietzsche's views on women: Friedrich Nietzsche's views on women have attracted controversy, beginning during his life and continuing to the present. Interesting: Misogyny | Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Nietzsche | Tschandala Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 18/03/15 02:38 PM |
| 1 | Aside from Misery, are there any serious depictions of female on male abuse in movies/tv?The Book of Revelation (film): The Book of Revelation is a 2006 Australian film directed by Ana Kokkinos, which she adapted with Andrew Bovell to screen from the novel by Rupert Thomson. It was produced by Al Clark, with original music by Cezary Skubiszewski. The movie was unique for its detailed visuals of a non statutory female on male rape. Image i Interesting: Rupert Thomson | Cezary Skubiszewski | Tom Long (actor) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/15 10:47 PM |
| 1 | [False Accusations] Governor delays pardoning 2 death row inmates who were exonerated by DNA. 15 and 19 when convicted of raping and murdering an 11 yr old girl in 1983, can't apply for mandated $750K maximum settlement until then, and live in poverty. (X-post /r/news)Roper v. Simmons: Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. The 5-4 decision overruled the Court's prior ruling upholding such sentences on offenders above or at the age of 16, in Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989), overturning statutes in 25 states that had the penalty set lower. Image i Interesting: List of Uni… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/15 10:01 PM |
| 1 | Navy records reveal 100,000 boys below voting age were shamed into enlisting during WW1. Why are the Suffragettes seen as the war's only victims of gender injustice?White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather i… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/15 11:00 AM |
| 1 | If you don't eat carbs you're a sexistDunning–Kruger effect: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others. As David Dunning and Just… | /r/MGTOW | 16/03/15 10:49 PM |
| 1 | As a male, why does rape/sexual assault have to be my problem.Collective punishment: Collective punishment is a form of retaliation whereby a suspected perpetrator's family members, friends, acquaintances, sect, neighbours or entire ethnic group is targeted. The punished group may often have no direct association with the other individuals or groups, or direct control over their actions. In times of war and armed conflict, collective punishment has resulted in atrocities, and is a violation of the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions. Historically, occup… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/15 10:41 PM |
| 5 | Once again, people take an issue that affects everyone and make it all about women.Violence against men: Violence against men is, collectively, violent acts that are disproportionately or exclusively committed against men. Men are overrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Sexual violence against men is treated differently in any given society, and may be unrecognized by international law. Interesting: Emasculation | Mariticide | Stop Abuse for Everyone | Fratricide Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. … | /r/MensRights | 16/03/15 10:39 PM |
| 1 | "Emma Watson’s 7 rules for being a male feminist"Feminism: Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work,… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/15 09:36 PM |
| 21 | Navy records reveal 100,000 boys below voting age were shamed into enlisting during WW1. Why are the Suffragettes seen as the war's only victims of gender injustice?Section 2. World War I of article White feather: In August 1914, at the start of the First World War, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded the Order of the White Feather with support from the prominent author Mrs Humphrey Ward. The organization aimed to shame men into enlisting in the British Army by persuading women to present them with a white feather if they were not wearing a uniform. This was joined by prominent feminists and suffragettes of the time, such as Emmeline Pankhurst and her daught… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/15 03:32 PM |
| 2 | There are some jobs that women just can't do: '60 Minutes' report on the Marines opening the infantry up to womenWar Is a Racket: War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket". The spe… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/03/15 02:10 PM |
| 1 | Why do BPers (and the general Reddit community) only hate the TRP communities, instead of hating "natural" TRPers and TRP qualities in regular people?Leipzig University internship controversy: In March 2015, Professor Annette Beck-Sickinger, the head of the biochemistry department at Leipzig University, caused furor in India when social media revealed an academic embargo on male Indian students by female professors in Germany and European female associations. The internship incident has disrupted Germany–India relations which had seen duress in the past after the 2007 Mügeln mob attack on Indians. The events comes just weeks before the Indian… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/03/15 08:09 PM |
| 6 | Women will next you when you're not useful anymoreSection 2. Briffault's Law of article Robert Briffault: Briffault is known for what is called Briffault's Law: The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place. — Robert Briffault, The Mothers, Vol. I, p. 191 Interesting: Islam and science | The First Sex | Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s | Philosopher's stone Parent co… | /r/MGTOW | 15/03/15 07:24 PM |
| 1 | Should men have to pay for children they didn't want?Posthumous sperm retrieval: Posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR) is a procedure in which spermatozoa are extracted from a man after he has been pronounced legally brain dead. There has been significant debate over the ethicality and legality of the procedure, and on the legal rights of the child and surviving parent if the gametes are used for impregnation. Cases of post-mortem conception have occurred ever since human artificial insemination techniques were first developed, with sperm donated to a … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/03/15 12:25 PM |
| 1 | First Officer Pregnant with 3rd childDan (rank): The dan (段 ?) ranking system is used by many Japanese organizations to indicate the level of one's ability (expertise) within a certain subject matter. As a ranking system, it was originally used at a go school during the Edo period. It is now also used in modern fine arts and martial arts. The system was applied to martial arts by Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938), the founder of judo, in 1883, and later introduced to other East Asia countries. In the modern Japanese martial arts, holders of … | /r/MarriedRedPill | 15/03/15 05:21 AM |
| 1 | Thoughts and questions about the future.Bachelor tax: A bachelor tax is a tax imposed on bachelors. Interesting: Resm-i mücerred | Disorders of sex development | History of tax resistance | Ghabaghib Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 15/03/15 02:28 AM |
| 1 | Should men have to pay for children they didn't want?Joan Barry (American actress): Joan Barry (May 24, 1920 or 1919) was an American actress who was at the center of a paternity suit with Charlie Chaplin in 1943. Image i Interesting: Joan Barry (British actress) | List of stage names | Joan Jett Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/03/15 12:04 AM |
| 1 | There was a femenist outcry in my class when part a was read aloudPowerhead: A powerhead, bang stick, smokie or shark stick is a specialized firearm used underwater that is fired when in direct contact with the target. Powerheads are often used for spear fishing and against sharks or alligators for sport, defense, or to kill nuisance animals. The term powerhead refers to the firearm-like part of the device; when attached to a shaft to form a spear, it may be referred to as a bang stick or shark stick. The spear in question may be handheld or launchable from a … | /r/MensRights | 14/03/15 04:57 PM |
| 1 | No Female Privilege? 4chan post. Has the usual hyperbole, but the argument is totally valid.Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), is an employment discrimination decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. Employers cannot be sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 over race or gender pay discrimination if the claims are based on decisions made by the employer 180 days ago or more. Justice Alito held for the five-justice majority that each paycheck received did not constitute a discrete discriminatory … | /r/MensRights | 14/03/15 02:46 PM |
| 2 | No Female Privilege? 4chan post. Has the usual hyperbole, but the argument is totally valid.Section 14. Socioeconomics of article American Jews: Education plays a major role as a part of Jewish identity; as Jewish culture puts a special premium on it and stresses the importance of cultivation of intellectual pursuits, scholarship and learning, American Jews as a group tend to be better educated and earn more than Americans as a whole. Forty-six percent (55% of Reform Jews) report family incomes of over $100,000 compared to 19% of all Americans, with the next highest group being Hindus … | /r/MensRights | 14/03/15 01:03 PM |
| 1 | Our Silent DiseaseMarie Curie: Marie Skłodowska-Curie (/ˈkjʊri, kjʊˈri/; French: [kyʁi]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and … | /r/MensRights | 14/03/15 10:47 AM |
| 1 | What is the biggest contributor to the development of "Nice Guys."?Politics and the English Language: "Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticises the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. It was originally published in the April 1946 issue of the journal Horizon. The article had been intended for George Weidenfeld's Contact magazine but it was turned down – the magazine wanted reportage. Politics and the English Langu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/03/15 02:22 AM |
| 1 | What is your experience of sexism against men?Warren Farrell: Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American educator, activist and author of seven books on men's and women's issues. He came to prominence in the 1970s, championing the cause of second wave feminism, and serving on the New York City Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW). However, he left NOW and is now recognized as an important figure in the modern men's movement. His books cover ten fields: history, law, sociology and politics (The Myth of Male Power… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 11:24 PM |
| 1 | Help With Rape Culture DebateSection 3. Consequences and legacy of article Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: The company's owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, who survived the fire by fleeing to the building's roof when the fire began, were indicted on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in mid-April; the pair's trial began on December 4, 1911. Max Steuer, counsel for the defendants, managed to destroy the credibility of one of the survivors, Kate Alterman, by asking her to repeat her testimony a number of tim… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 08:25 PM |
| 1 | Ex-Harvard prof. sues Harvard for discrimination, citing her advocacy on sexual assault in the comments section of an article (the one where she and I got into a dust-up)Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 08:20 PM |
| 7 | Woman murders my good friend after careful planning. Feminist prosecutor ignores the evidence that the detective worked hard to gather. She is now free, and RICH.Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film conceived and created by Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne's close friend Andrew Bagby was allegedly murdered by Shirley Jane Turner after Bagby ended their tumultuous relationship. Shortly after she was arrested, she announced she was pregnant with Bagby's child, a boy she named Zachary. Kuenne decided to interview numerous relatives, friends, and associates of Andrew Bagby a… | /r/PussyPass | 13/03/15 06:11 PM |
| 1 | It's actually pretty disturbing that a feminist can claim this despite literally the exact opposite happening.Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). Powers given to enforce the act were … | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 08:44 AM |
| 2 | Sheryl Sandberg Nags Husbands to Do the Laundry--But "Forgets" to Nag Wives to Shovel the Snow and Fix the FaucetTender years doctrine: The tender years doctrine is a legal principle which has existed in family law since the late nineteenth century. This common law doctrine presumes that during a child's "tender" years (generally regarded as the age of four and under), the mother should have custody of the child. The doctrine often arises in divorce proceedings. Image i - Caroline Norton, the person who initiated the tender years doctrine Interesting: Shared parenting | Custody of Infants Act 1839 | Index … | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 07:33 AM |
| 1 | after reading seddit and trp and other self-help, I realized i have not been thinkingMens sana in corpore sano: Mens sana in corpore sano is a Latin aphorism, usually translated as "A sound mind in a sound body." Interesting: Sanity | Insanity | Sokół | Mens Sana Monographs Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 12/03/15 11:25 PM |
| 1 | If she hits you then you probably deserved it. (x-post r/facepalm)Equity and gender feminism: Equity feminism and gender feminism are two kinds of feminism that were first defined by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism? She describes equity feminism as having the ideological objective of equal legal rights for men and women and gender feminism as having the objective of counteracting sexism and patriarchic social structures in everyday social and cultural practice. Sommers is herself a strong advocate of what she calls equity fem… | /r/MensRights | 12/03/15 08:15 PM |
| 1 | Amazing how misogyny is the thing that supposedly needs battling against when this type of shit can be posted in the WSJ.Pamela Wallin: Pamela Wallin, OC, SOM (born April 10, 1953) is a Canadian former television journalist and diplomat. On January 2, 2009, she was appointed to the Canadian Senate, where she sat as a Conservative until May 17, 2013 when she decided to leave the caucus until an audit into her expense claims was complete. On November 5, 2013 the Senate voted to suspend Wallin without pay for two years for alleged theft from the public purse. Image i Interesting: Pamela Wallin Live | Key Porter Books… | /r/MensRights | 12/03/15 07:39 PM |
| 1 | What does red pill think of feminist analytical philosophy?Law of the instrument: The concept known as the law of the instrument, Maslow's hammer, Gavel or a golden hammer is an over-reliance on a familiar tool; as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." Interesting: Legal instrument | Privy Seal of Japan | Law and development | International human rights instruments Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/03/15 05:59 PM |
| 1 | Lying Cheerleader Calls Cops for Domestic Abuse, but Boyfriend Proves She Was the AttackerSection 12. Inmate population of article Federal Bureau of Prisons: The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintains custody of persons convicted of violating federal laws (laws of the Federal Government of the United States) and many pre-trial detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In addition several inmates in BOP custody are persons awaiting trial for federal charges against them. The bureau also incarcerates individuals convicted of felonies in the Distr… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 12/03/15 05:05 PM |
| 3 | It's actually pretty disturbing that a feminist can claim this despite literally the exact opposite happening.Aileen Wuornos: Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that all of the homicides were committed in self-defense. She was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the murders and was executed by the State of Florida by lethal injection on October 9, 2002. Image i Interesting… | /r/MensRights | 12/03/15 05:03 PM |
| 2 | It's actually pretty disturbing that a feminist can claim this despite literally the exact opposite happening.National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women: The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, also known informally as White Ribbon Day, is a day commemorated in Canada each December 6, the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which armed student Marc Lépine murdered fourteen women and injured ten others in the name of "fighting feminism". The commemoration date was established by the Parliament of Canada in 1991. The legislation was … | /r/MensRights | 12/03/15 01:31 PM |
| 2 | Lying Cheerleader Calls Cops for Domestic Abuse, but Boyfriend Proves She Was the AttackerDouble jeopardy: Double jeopardy is a procedural defence that forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following a legitimate acquittal or conviction. In common law countries, a defendant may enter a peremptory plea of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict (autrefois means "in the past" in French), meaning the defendant has been acquitted or convicted of the same offence and hence that they cannot be retried under the principle of double jeopardy. If this issue… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 12/03/15 10:43 AM |
| 1 | "If you won't settle for a woman who has been riding the CC and wracking high numbers, why should a woman who has low numbers go for a guy with high numbers?" - my plate. What's the answer here?Courtesan: A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person. In feudal society, the court was the centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together. Prior to the Renaissance, courtesans served to convey information untrusted to servants to visiting dignitaries. In Renaissance Europe, courtiers played an extremely important role in upper-class socie… | /r/askTRP | 12/03/15 02:15 AM |
| 1 | What does red pill think of feminist analytical philosophy?Hjernevask: Hjernevask (Brainwash) is a Norwegian popular science documentary series that aired on Norwegian television in 2010. The series was produced by Harald Eia and Ole Martin Ihle, and was completed in seven episodes consisting of interviews with Norwegian and foreign researchers who have different views on the nature versus nurture debate. Image i Interesting: Harald Eia | Nordic Gender Institute | Team Antonsen Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment scor… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/03/15 02:02 AM |
| 3 | “Half of Domestic Violence Victims are Men”… “No domestic violence shelters are dedicated to us” | Finally a Toronto news agency that doesn't call it "controversial"Weasel word: A weasel word (also, anonymous authority) is an informal term for words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that a specific and/or meaningful statement has been made, when only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated, enabling the specific meaning to be denied if the statement is challenged. A more formal term is equivocation. The use of weasel words to avoid making an outright assertion is synonymous to tergiversate. Weasel words can imply meaning far beyond the cl… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/15 07:09 PM |
| 1 | Paul Joseph Watson: Lie Before Sex? You're a RapistRape by deception: Rape by deception is a crime in which the perpetrator has the victim's sexual consent and compliance, but gains it through deception or fraudulent statements or actions. The media may also refer to this type of rape as "rape by fraud", "rape by impersonation" or "rape by trickery" [citation needed]. Interesting: Types of rape | Rape in Saudi Arabia | Rape in Afghanistan | Outline of human sexuality Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score o… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/15 06:12 PM |
| 1 | Mormon Girls and getting marriedRumspringa: Rumspringa (IPA: [rəmˈsprɪŋə], Pennsylvania Dutch: [rʊmˈʃprɪŋə]), also spelled Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa, is a term for adolescence used in some Amish communities. The Amish, a subsect of the Anabaptist Christian movement, intentionally segregate themselves from other communities as a part of their faith. The Rumspringa normally begins around the age of 14 to 16 and ends when a youth chooses baptism within the Amish church, or instead leaves the community. :10–11 The vast majority … | /r/askTRP | 11/03/15 08:21 AM |
| 1 | Arrest warrant issued for mother at center of circumcision fightRationalization (making excuses): In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses ) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means. It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning. Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motive… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/15 06:14 AM |
| 2 | CMV - Women have an extremely high bar to even consider men passable or average, and only find truly elite men to be "hot" or remarkableSection 3. Reducing of article Cognitive dissonance: Cognitive dissonance theory is founded on the assumption that individuals seek consistency between their expectations and their reality. Because of this, people engage in a process called dissonance reduction to bring their cognitions and actions in line with one another. This creation of uniformity allows for a lessening of psychological tension and distress. According to Festinger, dissonance reduction can be achieved in four ways. In an exa… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/03/15 03:35 AM |
| 1 | Why do Redpillers tend to desire multiple casual partners as opposed to a stable long term girlfriend? Just curiousLesbian bed death: Lesbian bed death is a term coined by University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz in her 1983 book American Couples. According to Schwartz, lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple, and they generally experience less sexual intimacy the longer the relationship lasts. The study has been criticized by the lesbian community and some psychologists as popular myth. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Lesbian</sup> <sup>sexual</sup> <s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/03/15 12:51 AM |
| 1 | Terrible Double StandardJury nullification: Jury nullification occurs in a trial when a jury acquits a defendant, even though the members of the jury believe the defendant to be responsible for the charges. This may occur when members of the jury disagree with the law the defendant has been charged with breaking, or believe that the law should not be applied in that particular case. A jury can similarly convict a defendant on the ground of disagreement with an existing law, even if no law is broken (although in jurisdi… | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 05:15 AM |
| 1 | "I'm a woman!" Mother flips out in family court over a joint custody rulingGodwin's law: Godwin's Law (or Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism. Despite being described as universal regarding the subject of the discussion, Godwin's law is more likely to be applicable … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/03/15 05:51 PM |
| 1 | Aggression and AngerR/K selection theory: In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring. The focus upon either increased quantity of offspring at the expense of individual parental investment, or reduced quantity of offspring with a corresponding increased parental investment, varies widely, seemingly to promote success in particular environments. The etymology is from an equation where r comes from rate an… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/03/15 04:53 PM |
| 1 | Man sits calmly on subway train while female tries to attack him, held back by her friends. Eventually, he gets attacked by all three when he responds to a kick, and does so sucessfully. - [3:30] [x-post /r/JusticePorn]Image stitching: Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to image stitching require nearly exact overlaps between images and identical exposures to produce seamless results. Some digital cameras can stitch their photos internally. Image stitching is widely used in today’s world in app… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/03/15 12:50 PM |
| 1 | I may be female and a women's rights activist, but this still made me angry. I'm sorry you guys have to deal with this.Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (Pub.L. 108–105, 117 Stat. 1201, enacted November 5, 2003, 18 U.S.C. § 1531, PBA Ban) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late-term abortion that the Act calls "partial-birth abortion", referred to in medical literature as intact dilation and extraction. Under this law, "Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus s… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/15 09:09 AM |
| 1 | 17 year old girl charged with manslaughter after encouraging and coaxing friend to commit suicide.Section 2. DSM-5 of article Antisocial personality disorder: The APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), defines antisocial personality disorder (Cluster B): A) A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three or more of the following: failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest; d… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/03/15 05:16 AM |
| 2 | No more Left/Right, Red/Blue, Liberal/Conservative slants, please.Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/15 02:34 AM |
| 4 | Man sits calmly on subway train while female tries to attack him, held back by her friends. Eventually, he gets attacked by all three when he responds to a kick, and does so sucessfully. - [3:30] [x-post /r/JusticePorn]Archaic human admixture with modern humans: There have been several instances of archaic human admixture with modern humans through interbreeding of modern humans with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and/or possibly other archaic humans over the course of human history. Neanderthal-derived DNA accounts for an estimated 1–4% of the Eurasian genome, but it is significantly absent or uncommon in the genome of most Sub-Saharan African people. In Oceanian and Southeast Asian populations, there's a relative… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 08/03/15 08:42 PM |
| 1 | Is a man approaching a woman with a purely sexual intent wrong?Ethical calculus: The term ethical calculus, when used generally, refers to any method of determining a course of action in a circumstance that is not explicitly evaluated in one's ethical code. A formal philosophy of ethical calculus is a recent development in the study of ethics, combining elements of natural selection, self-organizing systems, emergence, and algorithm theory. Ethical calculus is based on the premise that moral and ethical codes are emergent algorithms, epiphenomena of large g… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/15 08:38 AM |
| 8 | Was about to make a purchase tonight until I saw the bracelet of the lady behind the counter. Cancelled my purchase and spoke to the owner over the phone, who was unaware of it and not onsite. She was reasonable, and it appears some more professional attire will be in order at their company.Section 3. Western symbolism of article Pentagram: The pentagram was used in ancient times as a Christian symbol for the five senses, or of the five wounds of Christ. A Christian use of the pentangle occurs in the 14th-century English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which the symbol decorates the shield of the hero, Gawain. The unnamed poet credits the symbol's origin to King Solomon, and says the symbol is key to understanding the work. The poet explains that each of the five interconn… | /r/MensRights | 08/03/15 08:18 AM |
| 1 | Clearing Up Notions of "Equality"Section 1. Equity vs% equality of article Educational equity: Often, the terms "equity" and "equality" are misused and interchanged when referring to educational equity. Although similar, there are important distinctions to be made between the two. Equity recognizes that some are at a larger disadvantage than others and aims at compensating for these peoples misfortunes and disabilities in order to make sure that everyone is capable of attaining the same type of healthy lifestyle. Examples of th… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/15 05:56 AM |
| 1 | *GASP* An Internet Article That Actually Values Nice Guys?Tit for tat: Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is also a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. The strategy was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. Notably, it was (on both occasions) both the simplest strategy and the most successful in direct competition. An agent using this strategy will first cooperate, then subsequently replicate an opponent's previous action. I… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/03/15 08:50 AM |
| 1 | How do you feel about being circumcised?British Israelism: British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a doctrine based on the hypothesis that people of Western European descent, particularly those in Great Britain, are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The doctrine often includes the tenet that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the line of King David. The central tenets of British Israelism have been refuted by evidence from modern genetic, linguistic, archaeological and philolog… | /r/MensRights | 06/03/15 09:45 PM |
| 1 | If I went up to a 7 foot man and started slapping him for taking a picture with me in it, 5 guys wouldn't threaten to punch the giant if he hit me because it would be "unfair"Duty to retreat: In the criminal law, the duty to retreat is a specific component which sometimes appears in the defense of self-defense, and which must be addressed if the defendant is to prove that his or her conduct was justified. In those jurisdictions where the requirement exists, the burden of proof is on the defense to show that the defendant was acting reasonably. Elements of acting reasonably include that the defendant had first avoided conflict and, secondly, had taken reasonable steps… | /r/PussyPass | 06/03/15 03:05 PM |
| 3 | Germany modifies quota in order to prevent men from benefitingVerfassungsbeschwerde: The constitutional complaint (Verfassungsbeschwerde) is a remedy found in Germany for protection of constitutional rights. It derives from Article 93 Sec. 1 Nr. 4a of the Basic Law. It resembles in certain respects the amparo remedy available in some Spanish-speaking nations. The constitutional complaint is an extraordinary remedy for the protection of constitutional rights. These are the basic rights (Art. 1 - 19 GG) and certain related rights (Art. 20 Sec. 4, Art. 33, Ar… | /r/MensRights | 06/03/15 02:14 PM |
| 6 | Judge Freaks Out in Court: "I Hope You Die in Prison!"Blackstone's formulation: In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", ...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. Image i Interesting: False positives and false negatives | Presumption of innocence Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will a… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 06/03/15 06:31 AM |
| 3 | LTR dyed her hair blue.Aposematism: Aposematism (from Greek ἀπό apo away, σ̑ημα sema sign, coined by Edward Bagnall Poulton ), perhaps most commonly known in the context of warning coloration, describes a family of antipredator adaptations where a warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential predators. Aposematism is one form of an "advertising" signal (with many others existing, such as the bright colours of flowers which lure pollinators). The warning signal may take the form of … | /r/askTRP | 06/03/15 05:23 AM |
| 5 | 3 months ago, I made a post about a girl's only computers class at my public high school. This is my experience with the "regular class" I am in.Turing (programming language): Turing is a Pascal-like programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, then of University of Toronto, Canada. Turing is a descendant of Euclid, Pascal and SP/k that features a clean syntax and precise machine-independent semantics. Image i Interesting: Turing completeness | Turing+ | TXL (programming language) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 06/03/15 05:03 AM |
| 2 | the real reason behind red pill anger?Probability: Probability is the measure of the likeliness that an event will occur. Probability is quantified as a number between 0 and 1 (where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty). The higher the probability of an event, the more certain we are that the event will occur. A simple example is the toss of a fair coin. Since the two outcomes are equally probable, the probability of "heads" equals the probability of "tails", so the probability is 1/2 (or 50%) chance of either "heads… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/03/15 07:27 PM |
| 1 | Why are some non-TRPers so anxious to let me know TRP/ers is the devil/worst-thing-ever/etc?“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/03/15 03:08 PM |
| 1 | Why do they want to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20?Indian Removal Act: The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. The act enjoyed strong support from the non-native peoples of the South, who were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the Five Civilized Tribes. Christian mission… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/15 10:55 AM |
| 1 | Woman slaps drunk fan at Wild-Avalanche GameStraw man: A straw man is a common reference argument and is an informal fallacy based on the representation of an opponent's argument. To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument. The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 05/03/15 09:17 AM |
| 1 | Things that don't make international headlines: "Editorial Footnote: It was just brought to my attention that the male friend of the female in this occurrence was also raped and he received the same punishment as she did."Qatif rape case: The Qatif rape case (Arabic: قضية اغتصاب فتاة القطيف) is a much-publicized gang rape case. The victims were a Shia teenage girl from Qatif (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia) and her male companion, who were kidnapped and gang-raped by seven Saudi men in mid-2006. A Saudi Sharia court sentenced the perpetrators to varying sentences involving 80 to 1,000 lashes and imprisonment up to ten years for four of them. The court also sentenced the two victims to six months in prison and 90… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/15 08:57 AM |
| 1 | Posted in my building. Men have to pay because they're not victims of rape or aggression.Rape Culture (film): Rape Culture is a 1975 film by Cambridge Documentary Films, produced by Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich. It was updated in 1983. In January 1975, Judy Norsigan outlined how the film illustrated "rape culture", through the voices of men and women, including rapists, victims, prisoners, rape crisis workers, and the media. The film featured prisoners of Lorton Reformatory, Virginia, "Prisoners Against Rape Inc" (PAR), a not-for-profit organisation founded by William Full… | /r/MensRights | 04/03/15 11:38 PM |
| 1 | With 100,000 subscribers and a common theme of field reports- can we say the anecdotes are finally amassing to useful data? Is it possible that the size and consistency of TRP's userbase is demonstrating that maybe the behaviors they observe are more common than you'd think?Group of 88: The Group of 88 was the phrase applied to 88 professors at Duke University who signed a controversial advertisement which was published two weeks after a woman falsely claimed to have been raped by members of Duke's lacrosse team. The players were ultimately declared innocent of all charges, and the prosecuting district attorney Mike Nifong was fired and disbarred. The person who conceived the idea of the advertisement was Karla F.C. Holloway, a professor of English and African-Amer… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/03/15 11:35 PM |
| 1 | Women: Have "guy friends" who do favors for you ever made you more attracted to him?God complex: A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. A person with a god complex may refuse to admit the possibility of their error or failure, even in the face of complex or intractable problems or difficult or impossible tasks, or may regard their personal opinions as unquestionably correct. The individual may disregard the rules of society and require special consideration or privileges. God comple… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/03/15 06:05 PM |
| 1 | Does anyone else have issues with authority?Max Weber: Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (German: [ˈmaks ˈveːbɐ]; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of sociology. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology. Weber was a key proponent of methodological antipositivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than purely empi… | /r/askTRP | 04/03/15 12:51 PM |
| 2 | Judge Judy is an MRA. Great quote from her on the gender bias of our family court system.Judith Sheindlin: Judith Susan Sheindlin (née Blum; born October 21, 1942), better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author. Since 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own successful Daytime Emmy Award winning reality courtroom series named after her, Judge Judy. Sheindlin passed the New York bar examination in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. In 1982 Mayor Ed Koch appointed her as a judge, first in criminal court, then later … | /r/MensRights | 04/03/15 07:09 AM |
| 2 | Judge Judy is an MRA. Great quote from her on the gender bias of our family court system.Judith Sheindlin: Judith Susan Sheindlin (née Blum; born October 21, 1942), better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author. Since 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own successful Daytime Emmy Award winning reality courtroom series named after her, Judge Judy. Sheindlin passed the New York bar examination in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. In 1982 Mayor Ed Koch appointed her as a judge, first in criminal court, then later … | /r/MensRights | 04/03/15 07:06 AM |
| 2 | Judge Judy is an MRA. Great quote from her on the gender bias of our family court system.Judith Sheindlin: Judith Susan Sheindlin (née Blum; born October 21, 1942), better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author. Since 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own successful Daytime Emmy Award winning reality courtroom series named after her, Judge Judy. Sheindlin passed the New York bar examination in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. In 1982 Mayor Ed Koch appointed her as a judge, first in criminal court, then later … | /r/MensRights | 04/03/15 03:59 AM |
| 1 | What do western men get from marriage that is reasonably unobtainable outside of it?Nazism in Sweden: Nazism in Sweden has been more or less fragmented and unable to form a mass movement since its beginning in the early 1920s. Several hundred parties, groups, and associations existed from the movement's founding through the present. At most, purely Nazi parties in Sweden have collected around 27,000 votes in democratic elections. The high point came in the municipal elections of 1934 when the Nazi parties were victorious in over one hundred electoral contests. As early as Janua… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/03/15 06:23 AM |
| 1 | How to be a man in 2015Transphobia: Transphobia (or less commonly transprejudice) is a range of antagonistic attitudes and feelings against transsexuality and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender identity (see Phobia – Terms for prejudice). Researchers describe transphobia as emotional disgust, fear, anger or discomfort felt or expressed towards people who do not conform to society's gender expectations, and say that although it is an aspect of homophobia, and is similar … | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 07:41 PM |
| 1 | Say what you want about Sweden, but compared to the Anglosphere they really have their shit together when it comes to family law.Section 4. Sweden of article Child support by country: In Sweden a parent not living with their child should pay "underhållsbidrag", since parents are obliged to support for their children. The amount should be agreed on by the parents, with consideration taken for the economic need of the child and the economic situation of both parents. This may be in the form of a contract or simply an agreement. With joint custody where the child lives with each parents roughly half of the time no child supp… | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 05:05 PM |
| 1 | Say what you want about Sweden, but compared to the Anglosphere they really have their shit together when it comes to family law.Divorce law in Sweden: Divorce law in Sweden concerns the dissolution of marriage, child support, alimony, custody and the division of property. Divorce restores the status of married people to individuals, leaving them free to remarry. The divorce laws in Sweden are known to be considerably liberal compared to other jurisdictions. Image i Interesting: Outline of Sweden | Divorce | Divorce demography | Divorce of same-sex couples Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on co… | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 02:37 PM |
| 2 | Man serves a police officer in a brutality lawsuit against his nephew, is charged with multiple felonies, backed by 7 witnesses, but is saved by video evidence.Personally identifiable information: "Personally identifiable information" (PII), as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. The abbreviation PII is widely accepted in the US context, but the phrase it abbreviates has four common variants based on personal / personally, and identifiable / identifying. Not all are equivalent, and f… | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 03:53 AM |
| 1 | I think feminists might have taken over the CDCSection 7. Medical advocacy and opposition of article Circumcision controversies: Circumcision spread in several English-speaking nations from the late 19th century, with the introduction of anesthesia and antisepsis rapidly expanding surgical practice. Doctors such as Sir Jonathan Hutchinson in England wrote articles in favour of the procedure. Peter Charles Remondino, a San Diego physician, wrote a History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present: Moral and Physical Reasons for I… | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 01:47 AM |
| 2 | Those poor female victims of the Islamic StateCollaboration horizontale: Collaboration horizontale, collaboration féminine or collaboration sentimentale (the French adjective "sentimentale" can be translated as "pertaining to a romantic relationship") was the (supposed) sexual intercourse that some French women had with members of the German invasion force after the Battle of France in 1940. This started to be considered a form of collaboration ca. June 6, 1944, the start of la Libération. After the War, throughout France, women accused of … | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 12:24 AM |
| 1 | "Why The Mens Rights Movement Will Not Succeed" Razor Blade KandySection 15. Personal life of article Bill Maher: Maher has never married. Regarding marriage, Maher is quoted on his website as saying, "I'm the last of my guy friends to have never gotten married, and their wives — they don't want them playing with me. I'm like the escaped slave — I bring news of freedom." In 2003, he began dating former Playboy Cyber Girl Coco Johnsen. In November 2004, at the end of their 17-month relationship, she sued him for USD $9 million for "pain and suffering" for alle… | /r/MensRights | 01/03/15 03:41 PM |
| 1 | I think feminists might have taken over the CDCDebt: The First 5000 Years: Debt: The First 5000 Years is a book by anthropologist David Graeber published in 2011. It explores the historical relationship of debt with social institutions such as money, cash, barter, community, marriage, friendship, vassalage, slavery, morality, honor, law, philosophy, commerce, religion, greed, charity, violence, war and government; in short, much of the fabric of human life in society. It draws on the history and anthropology of a number of civilizations, lar… | /r/MensRights | 01/03/15 03:28 PM |
| 1 | Wikipedia at its finestDomestic violence against men: Domestic violence against men deals with domestic violence experienced by men or boys in an intimate relationship such as marriage, cohabitation, dating, or within a family. As with domestic violence against women, violence against men may constitute a crime, but laws vary between jurisdictions. Socio-cultural norms regarding the treatment of men by women, and women by men, differ depending on the geographic region, and physically abusive behavior by one partner to… | /r/MensRights | 01/03/15 10:29 AM |
| 1 | Feminist Wikipedia administrator trying to delete the "Violence Against Men" article on Wikipedia.Women in Greece: The status and characteristics of ancient and modern-day women in Greece evolved from the events that occurred in the history of Greece. According to Michael Scott, in his article "The Rise of Women in Ancient Greece" (History Today), "place of women" and their achievements in Ancient Greece was best described by Thucidydes in this quotation: that The greatest glory [for women] is to be least talked about among men, whether in praise or blame. However, the status of Greek women … | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 09:07 PM |
| 1 | Pittsburgh woman who stole her cancer-stricken neighbor's dog and paid to have it euthanized will get jail timeKindergarten: A kindergarten (German (German pronunciation: [ˈkɪndɐˌgaːtn] ), literally children's garden) is a preschool educational approach traditionally based around playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. The first such institutions were created in the late eighteenth century in Bavaria and Strasbourg to serve children both of whose parents worked out of the home. The name kindergarten was coined by Friedr… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 28/02/15 08:37 PM |
| 1 | Understanding the misogyny and bigotry of the illiberal, anti-MRA progressives at Cracked.comArdipithecus: Ardipithecus is a genus of an extinct hominine which lived during Late Miocene and Early Pliocene in Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Originally described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage, it is now a matter of debate what was the relation of this genus to human ancestors, that is whether it is a hominin, or not. Two fossil species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4.4 million years ago during the early … | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 06:29 PM |
| 2 | Understanding the misogyny and bigotry of the illiberal, anti-MRA progressives at Cracked.comDavid Wong (writer): Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975), known by his pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer. He is the executive editor of humor website Cracked.com and has written two novels, John Dies at the End (2007) and This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012). The former was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012. Interesting: List of Chinese Americans | List of Asian Americans | Anna May Wong Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 05:39 PM |
| 1 | Why do so many middle-aged men feel so lost?Gender differences in suicide: Gender differences in suicide rates have been shown to be significant; there are highly asymmetric rates of attempted and completed suicides between males and females. The gap, also called the "gender paradox of suicidal behavior", can vary significantly among different countries. Statistics indicate that males die by suicide more frequently than do females; however, reported suicide attempts and suicidal ideation are more common among females. Image i Interesting:… | /r/MGTOW | 28/02/15 05:37 PM |
| 0 | Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager [boy] who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. "He was born a black skinned boy, he was born to die". Bob DylanGeorge Stinney: George Junius Stinney, Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. Stinney, an African-American youth from South Carolina, was convicted in a two-hour trial of the first-degree murder of two pre-teen white girls: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker, and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames. However, no physical evidence existed in the case, and the sole evidence against Stinney was the circumstantial fact that … | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 04:29 PM |
| 16 | Open discrimination in Japan (Not sure if repost)Section 1. Japan of article Groping: In Japan, men who grope women in public are called chikan (痴漢, チカン, or ちかん); and the term also describes the act itself. Crowded trains are a favourite location for groping and a 2001 survey conducted in two Tokyo high schools revealed that more than 70% of students had been groped while traveling on them. [citation needed] As part of the effort to combat the problem, some railway companies designate women-only passenger cars during rush hours. While the term… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 03:14 PM |
| 1 | Chronicle of female evil: 18 yo girl encourages male friend to kill himself, then basks in the attention his death gains herRoe v. Wade: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 01:30 PM |
| 1 | Wikipedia at its finestDomestic violence against men: Domestic violence against men deals with domestic violence experienced by men or boys in an intimate relationship such as marriage, cohabitation, dating, or within a family. As with domestic violence against women, violence against men may constitute a crime, but laws vary between jurisdictions. Socio-cultural norms regarding the treatment of men by women, and women by men, differ depending on the geographic region, and physically abusive behavior by one partner to… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 10:21 AM |
| 5 | Wikipedia at its finestViolence against men: Violence against men is any act of violence that targets men or boys primarily or exclusively. Although the motives for violence are similar regardless of gender, violence against men is more frequent than violence against other groups. Although men are mostly responsible for committing violent acts, the violence is directed disproportionately toward other men Violence against men is treated differently in any given society and is often unrecognized by international law. In… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 05:12 AM |
| 1 | Why is it impossible to be a liberal MRA/EgalitarianInstant-runoff voting: Instant-runoff voting (IRV), alternative vote (AV), transferable vote, ranked-choice voting, or preferential voting in Australia, is an electoral system used to elect a single winner from a field of more than two candidates. It is a preferential voting system in which voters rank the candidates in order of preference rather than voting for a single candidate. Ballots are initially distributed based on each elector's first preference. If a candidate secures more than half o… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 02:05 AM |
| 3 | Feminist Wikipedia administrator trying to delete the "Violence Against Men" article on Wikipedia.Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia: Deletionism and inclusionism are opposing philosophies that largely developed and came to public notice within the context of the community of editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The terms are connected to views on the appropriate scope of the encyclopedia, and the appropriate point for a topic to be allowed to "include" an encyclopedia article (i.e., "inclusion") or "delete" the article (i.e., "deletion"). Inclusionism and deletionism are bro… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/15 02:02 AM |
| 4 | 17 year old girl charged with manslaughter after encouraging and coaxing friend to commit suicide.Münchausen syndrome by proxy: Münchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP or MBP) is a behaviour pattern in which a caregiver fabricates, exaggerates, or induces mental or physical health problems in those who are in their care. With deception at its core, this behaviour is an elusive, potentially lethal, and frequently misunderstood form of child abuse or medical neglect that has been difficult to define, detect, and confirm. MSbP has also spawned much heated controversy within the legal and social serv… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 27/02/15 10:30 PM |
| 1 | Hope Solo claims SHE'S the victim. Gets soft-light interview with ESPN.Straw man: A straw man is a common reference argument and is an informal fallacy based on the representation of an opponent's argument. To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument. The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute… | /r/PussyPass | 27/02/15 09:12 AM |
| 2 | I'm a feminist who wants to bring greater services to male survivors of violence, including shelter. Who's with me?Section 3. The Nanking Massacre of article John Rabe: The Nanking Massacre killed 50,000 to 60,000 civilians according to John Rabe, while Rabe and his zone administrators tried frantically to stop the atrocities. His attempts to appeal to the Japanese by using his Nazi membership credentials only delayed them; but that delay allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees to escape. The documentary Nanking credited him for saving the lives of 250,000 Chinese civilians. Other sources suggest that Rabe… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/15 05:50 AM |
| 5 | Big Think: “Men Overestimate Themselves.” “Women Are More Competent Leaders!”Dunning–Kruger effect: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others. [citation needed] As Davi… | /r/MensRights | 26/02/15 05:08 PM |
| 1 | CMV the SMP is socially constructed not part of gender estentialism in the modern day.Amygdala hijack: Amygdala hijack is a term coined by Daniel Goleman in his 1996 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Drawing on the work of Joseph E. LeDoux, Goleman uses the term to describe emotional responses from people which are immediate and overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat. Image i - Amygdala hijack - fear caused by optical stimulus Interesting: Irrationality | Amygdala | Lis… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/02/15 03:25 PM |
| 7 | woman steals iPad from dying patient and gets kicked out of medical schoolActor–observer asymmetry: Actor–observer asymmetry (also actor–observer bias) explains the errors that one makes when forming attributions about the behavior of others (Jones & Nisbett, 1971). When people judge their own behavior, and they are the actor, they are more likely to attribute their actions to the particular situation than to a generalization about their personality. Yet when an observer is explaining the behavior of another person (the actor), they are more likely to attribute this b… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 26/02/15 01:32 PM |
| 3 | Dear Daddy, Thank you for working so hard for us...David Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 25/02/15 07:21 PM |
| 1 | “No man wants a financial abortion like he wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. He wants a financial abortion like an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.”Special pleading: Special pleading is a form of fallacious argument that involves an attempt to cite something as an exception to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. without justifying the exception. The lack of criticism may be a simple oversight (e.g., a reference to common sense) or an application of a double standard. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Zafar</sup> <sup>Younis</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Straight</sup> <sup>and</sup> <sup>Crooked</sup> <sup>Thinking <sup>|</sup> <sup>No</sup> <s… | /r/MensRights | 25/02/15 05:57 PM |
| 2 | Absolutely disgusting attempt to connect boy knocking over toy with man murdering wife. Boys are in the firing line, we need to speak up.Betteridge's law of headlines: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the general concept is much older. The observation has also been called "Davis' law" or just the "journalistic principle". In the field of particle physics, the concept, referring to the titles of research papers, has been referred to as Hinchliffe's Rule since… | /r/MensRights | 25/02/15 04:28 PM |
| 1 | What is the female equivalent of "dudebro"?Female Chauvinist Pigs: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005) is a book by Ariel Levy which critiques the highly sexualized American culture in which women are objectified, objectify one another, and are encouraged to objectify themselves. Levy refers to this as "raunch culture". Image i Interesting: Ariel Levy | Chauvinism | Boi (lesbian slang) | Lipstick feminism Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | … | /r/MensRights | 25/02/15 03:44 PM |
| 1 | What is the female equivalent of "dudebro"?Gynoid: A gynoid is anything that resembles or pertains to the female human form. The term has more recently been applied to a humanoid robot designed to more accurately look like a human female with much more realism than normal androids, or of those with a sexual connotation. However, it has not gained popular usage to refer specifically to female robots, as the term android is used almost universally to refer to robotic humanoids regardless of apparent gender, though in etymology "andr-" refe… | /r/MensRights | 25/02/15 02:15 PM |
| 1 | Redpillers who used to be feminists: how did you change your mind?Egalitarianism: Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism or equalism —is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people. Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English. It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/02/15 10:35 AM |
| 1 | Lithuania to bring back conscription, Exploiting Male Utility at the point of a gunSection 2. Colonial to 1861 of article Conscription in the United States: In colonial times, the Thirteen Colonies used a militia system for defense. Colonial militia laws—and after independence those of the United States and the various states—required able-bodied males to enroll in the militia, to undergo a minimum of military training, and to serve for limited periods of time in war or emergency. This earliest form of conscription involved selective drafts of militiamen for service in particu… | /r/MensRights | 25/02/15 04:17 AM |
| 2 | What do western men get from marriage that is reasonably unobtainable outside of it?Section 1. Prevalence of article Domestic violence against men: Determining the rate of IPV against males can be difficult, as men are often more reluctant than women to report their abuse or seek help. One of the reasons for this is that IPV against men is generally less recognized by society than IPV against women. :1 Additionally, heterosexual male victims of IPV are often judged harshly for "allowing" themselves to be beaten by a woman. This view is based upon the general rule that men are p… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/02/15 06:42 PM |
| 1 | Just curious, but how does the RP side explain all the female teachers having sex with their underage male students?Mary Kay Letourneau: Mary Kay Fualaau (née Schmitz, formerly Mary Kay Letourneau; born January 30, 1962) is a former schoolteacher who pleaded guilty to two counts of felony second degree rape of a child, her 12-year-old student, Vili Fualaau. Her plea agreement called for six months in jail, with three months suspended, and no contact with Fualaau for life. One month after her release from jail, she was caught by police with Fualaau. Judge Linda Lau found that she was in violation of the condit… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/02/15 03:27 PM |
| 1 | Patricia Arquette just mentioned the falsified pay gap based on gender statistics in her acceptance speech at the Oscars.Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014: CNN reported on April 30, 2014 that at least 40 United States Armed Forces veterans died while waiting for care at the Phoenix, Arizona, Veterans Health Administration facilities. By June 5, 2014, Veterans Affairs internal investigations had identified 35 veterans who had died while waiting for care in the Phoenix VHA system. An investigation of delays in treatment throughout the Veterans Health Administration system is being conducted by the Veter… | /r/MensRights | 24/02/15 06:40 AM |
| 1 | Wife cheating - is it worth a divorce?Extradition law in the United States: Extradition law in the United States is the formal process by which a fugitive found in the United States is surrendered to another country or state for trial or punishment. For foreign countries the process is regulated by treaty and conducted between the Federal Government of the United States and the government of a foreign country. The process is considerably different from interstate extradition, or interstate rendition, as mandated by Article 4, Sectio… | /r/askTRP | 23/02/15 10:58 PM |
| 1 | 'She has no right to be supported for life': Judge tells ex-wife of millionaire racehorse vet to get a job in landmark divorce case.Declaration of Sentiments: The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. The convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, now known as the Seneca Falls Convention. Some of its key organizers were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, and Martha Coffin Wright. The principal author of the Declaration of… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 10:08 PM |
| 3 | 'She has no right to be supported for life': Judge tells ex-wife of millionaire racehorse vet to get a job in landmark divorce case.SlutWalk: SlutWalk is a transnational movement of protest marches which began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, with subsequent rallies occurring globally. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance, and call for an end to rape culture. The rallies began after Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto Police officer, suggested that "women should avoid dressing like sluts" as a precaution against sexual assault. Image i - The fi… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 09:23 PM |
| 3 | What are the phases of RP?Kübler-Ross model: The Kübler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief, is a series of emotional stages experienced by survivors of an intimate's death, wherein the five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The model was first introduced by Swiss Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying, and was inspired by her work with terminally ill patients. Motivated by the lack of curriculum in medical schools on the subject of death and dying, Kübl… | /r/askTRP | 23/02/15 08:12 PM |
| 3 | Patricia Arquette just mentioned the falsified pay gap based on gender statistics in her acceptance speech at the Oscars.Section 3. Failure to register of article Selective Service System: In 1980, men who knew they were required to register and did not do so could face up to five years in jail or a fine up to $50,000 if convicted. The potential fine was later increased to $250,000. Despite these possible penalties, government records indicate that from 1980 through 1986 there were only 20 indictments, of which 19 were instigated in part by self-publicized and self-reported non-registration. As one of the elements… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 04:41 PM |
| 2 | Outrage machine rolls over Vivek Wadwha when TLDR podcast runs story about him but chooses not to interview him. Episode #46, they finally talk to him. "I'm trying to help women over here. This is horrifying, that you would crucify me like this."The Scorpion and the Frog: The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable that seems to have first emerged in 1954. On account of its dark morality, there have been many popular references since then in popular culture, including notable films, television shows, and books. Image i - An 1847 illustration of "The Scorpion and the Turtle" from the Persian Kalilah and Dimna Interesting: The Scorpion and the Toad | The Devil's Carnival | The Frog and the Mouse Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 02:33 PM |
| 4 | Patricia Arquette just mentioned the falsified pay gap based on gender statistics in her acceptance speech at the Oscars.Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author's intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 02:01 PM |
| 1 | Patricia Arquette just mentioned the falsified pay gap based on gender statistics in her acceptance speech at the Oscars.Wronger than wrong: Wronger than wrong, described by Michael Shermer as Asimov's axiom, is a mistake discussed in Isaac Asimov's book of essays, The Relativity of Wrong. A statement that equates two errors is wronger than wrong when one of the errors is clearly more wrong than the other. As Asimov put it: "When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 01:26 PM |
| 1 | Does the MRM need to be "intersectional?" (discussion in /r/FeMRADebates)Intersectionality: Intersectionality (or intersectionalism) is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. An example is black feminism, which argues that the experience of being a black female cannot be understood in terms of being black, and of being female, considered independently, but must include the interactions, which frequently reinforce each other. This feminist sociological theory was first named by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, though… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/15 01:37 AM |
| 1 | Political Correctness gone awry - Wesleyan Fraternity Sues University After Being Forced To Accept WomenPhi Tau: Phi Tau is a coeducational fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Founded in 1905 as the Tau Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa, the organization separated from the national fraternity in 1956 over a dispute regarding the segregationist membership policies of the national organization. The fraternity renamed itself Phi Tau Fraternity, and in 1972 became the first fraternity at Dartmouth to admit women student members. Today, Phi Tau Coeducational Fraternity is one of on… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/15 10:49 PM |
| 5 | Woman stabs unarmed teenager to death in pre-meditated attack, fakes defence wounds to back up claim that she "legally killed him" under her own amateurish interpretation of the law. Denied, but only gets 9 years.Section 2. Method of article Capital punishment in Washington state: Death Row for males is located at Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, which is also the site of executions. Females are housed at Washington Corrections Center for Women at Purdy near Gig Harbor while awaiting execution. Since June 6, 1996, inmates have been able to choose if their execution will be carried out by lethal injection or hanging. If the inmate makes no decision, lethal injection is the standard method. It… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 22/02/15 08:25 PM |
| 6 | Saw these posters on an Army base. Thought you guys would appreciate them.Section 3. Sexual assault against men of article Sexual assault in the United States military: The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, most involved attacks on men, mostly by other men. Out of 1,197,000 total enlisted men, approximately 1 to 2 percent are said to have experienced a sexual assault. Recent statistics show that in terms of number of assaults, “the majority of the victi… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/15 07:34 PM |
| 1 | The 'Braveheart' Rohtak Sisters Failed Their Lie Detector And Psychological Tests. The Guys They Beat Up Didn'tCriminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013): See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage Interesting: Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 | 2013 in India | Save Indian Family | Domestic violence in India | Capital punishment in India Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 22/02/15 05:06 PM |
| 1 | Deadbeat Moms? Should Mothers Be Required To Pay Child Support?Duncan v. Louisiana: Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968), was a significant United States Supreme Court decision which incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and applied it to the states. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>List</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>United</sup> <sup>States</sup> <sup>Supreme</sup> <sup>Court</sup> <sup>cases,</sup> <sup>volume</sup> <sup>391 <sup>|</sup> <sup>Taylor</sup> <sup>v.</sup> <sup>Louisiana <sup>|</sup> <sup>Argersinger</sup> <sup>v.</sup> <sup>Hamli… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/15 09:48 AM |
| 1 | Deadbeat Moms? Should Mothers Be Required To Pay Child Support?Strict liability: In law, strict liability is a standard for liability which may exist in either a criminal or civil context. A rule specifying strict liability makes a person legally responsible for the damage and loss caused by her or his acts and omissions regardless of culpability (including fault in criminal law terms, typically the presence of mens rea). Strict liability is prominent in tort law (especially product liability), corporations law, and criminal law. For analysis of the pros an… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/15 09:03 AM |
| 1 | Discussion: If Jesus were alive today, would He be Redpill?Historicity of Jesus: The historicity of Jesus concerns whether Jesus of Nazareth existed as a historical figure, whether the episodes portrayed in the gospels can be confirmed as historical events as opposed to myth, legend, or fiction, and the weighing of the evidence relating to his life. [page needed] :168-173 The historicity of Jesus is distinct from the related study of the historical Jesus, which refers to scholarly reconstructions of the life of Jesus based primarily on critical analysis… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/02/15 02:03 AM |
| 2 | The formerly undecided: Which side did you choose in the end?Ad hominem: An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person" ), short for argumentum ad hominem, means responding to arguments by attacking a person's character, rather than to the content of their arguments. When used inappropriately, it is a fallacy in which a claim or argument is dismissed on the basis of some irrelevant fact or supposition about the author or the person being criticized. Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/02/15 12:03 AM |
| 1 | "National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance" by the European Council basically says that anti-feminism is as bad as racismModel National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance: Model National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance is a document prepared by a group of experts of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), which regulates the legal relationship in the sphere of tolerance. It has been unanimously adopted – under the sponsorship of the ECTR – by a group of experts consisting of five scholars from different countries and from diverse backgrounds: Prof. Yoram Dinstein (Professor Emeritus… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/15 12:02 AM |
| 1 | Why do Bluepillers object so stridently sexual realpolitik?Indian American: Indian Americans (also known as Indo Americans) are Americans of Indian ancestry and comprise about 2.81 million people, alone or 3.18 million, combined with one or more races, about 1% of the U.S. population, the country's third largest self-reported Asian ancestry group after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans, according to American Community Survey of 2010 data. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with the indigenous peoples of the Ameri… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/02/15 06:17 PM |
| 2 | Very Relevant, dissection of RooshVTroll (Internet): In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. This sense of the word troll and its associated verb trolling are associated with Inte… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/02/15 05:50 PM |
| 2 | request for "gaslighting" explainedGaslighting: Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted/spun, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception and sanity. Instances may range simply from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. The term owes its origin to the play Ga… | /r/askTRP | 21/02/15 04:52 PM |
| 1 | Why does Twitter suspend MRA accounts?Shouting fire in a crowded theater: "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a popular metaphor for speech or actions made for the principal purpose of creating unnecessary panic. The phrase is a paraphrasing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Th… | /r/MensRights | 21/02/15 03:40 PM |
| 2 | An attractive young lady intends to have sex with a player on each of the 17 hockey teams. She texts nudes of herself with an invite for sex. Two 19-year-old males face felony charges including sex with a minor. Who's the sexual predator?Pedophilia: Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children, generally age 11 years or younger. As a medical diagnosis, specific criteria for the disorder extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13. A person who is diagnosed with pedophilia must be at least 16 years of age, but adolescents must be at least five years older than the prepubescent child for the attractio… | /r/MensRights | 21/02/15 01:04 PM |
| 1 | Laws favouring women?Disparate impact: In United States anti-discrimination law, the theory of disparate impact holds that practices in employment, housing, or other areas may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate "adverse impact" on persons along the lines of a protected trait. Although the protected traits vary by statute, most federal civil rights laws include race, color, religion, national origin, and gender as protected traits, and some laws include disability status and othe… | /r/MensRights | 21/02/15 03:15 AM |
| 1 | Hatred and misogynyMisogyny: Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women. Misogyny can be found within many mythologies of the ancient world as well as various religions. In addition, various influential Western philosophers have been described as misogynistic. Image i Interesting: Misogyny in hip hop culture | Misogyny Speech | Cock… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/02/15 04:18 PM |
| 1 | What are the thoughts on the largely feminist Group of 88?Group of 88: The Group of 88 was the phrase applied to 88 professors at Duke University who signed a controversial advertisement which was published two weeks after a woman falsely claimed to have been raped by members of Duke's lacrosse team. The players were ultimately declared innocent of all charges, and the prosecuting district attorney Mike Nifong was fired and disbarred. The person who conceived the idea of the advertisement was Karla F.C. Holloway, a professor of English and African-Amer… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/02/15 03:23 PM |
| 1 | New to the men's right's movementRelational aggression: Relational aggression, also known as covert aggression, or covert bullying is a type of aggression in which harm is caused through damage to one’s relationships or social status. Although it can be used in many contexts and among different age groups, relational aggression among adolescents, in particular, has received a lot of attention with the help of popular media including movies like Mean Girls and books like Odd Girl Out by R. Simmons (2003), Nesthäkchen and the Wor… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/15 02:28 PM |
| 3 | Roosh isn't an MRAA Modest Proposal: A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless att… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/15 10:47 AM |
| 2 | Man faces legal action for buying woman drinks at bar.Dionysus: Dionysus (/daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/; Greek: Διόνυσος, Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. Alcohol, especially wine, played an important role in Greek culture with Dionysus being an important reason for this life style. His name, thought to be a theonym in Linear B tablets as di-wo-nu-so (KH Gq 5 inscription), shows that he may have been worshipped as early as c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenean Gre… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/15 04:45 AM |
| 1 | Why RedPillers will simultaneously say it's easier to be a woman and that they wouldn't wave a magic wand and be a woman.Necessity and sufficiency: In logic, necessity and sufficiency are implicational relationships between statements. The assertion that one statement is a necessary and sufficient condition of another means that the former statement is true if and only if the latter is true. That is, the two statements must be either simultaneously true or simultaneously false. In ordinary English, 'necessary' and 'sufficient' indicate relations between conditions or states of affairs, not statements. Being a male… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/02/15 02:13 AM |
| 6 | PSA: The guy from the "Why do you take alimony" videoChivalry: Chivalry, or the chivalric code, is a code of conduct associated with the medieval institution of knighthood which developed between 1170 and 1220. According to the British Medieval historian David Crouch, the historical debate on chivalry is an ancient one. The late medieval code of chivalry had arisen from the idealisation of the early medieval synthesis of Germanic and Roman martial traditions —involving military bravery, individual training, and service to others—especially in Fran… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 19/02/15 09:25 PM |
| 2 | What is it with women, flowers, and Valentine's Day?Plant symbolism: Various folk cultures and traditions assign the symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their old rural traditions, some survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war and some display white poppies, also for re… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/02/15 02:05 PM |
| 1 | Planned Parenthood Comes out in Support of Routine Infant CircumcisionPain in babies: Pain in babies, and whether babies feel pain, has been the subject of debate within the medical profession for centuries. Prior to the late nineteenth century it was generally considered that babies hurt more easily than adults. It was only in the last quarter of the 20th century that scientific techniques finally established babies definitely do experience pain – probably more than adults – and has developed reliable means of assessing and of treating it. Interesting: Bonjela | … | /r/MensRights | 19/02/15 12:39 PM |
| 1 | Male Students Using Texts, Videotapes, Facebook to Beat Rape ChargesBlood types in Japanese culture: There is a common, popular belief in Japan and other East Asian countries that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (血液型 ?) is predictive of his or her personality, temperament, and compatibility with others. This is similar to how astrological signs are perceived as influencing factors in a person's life within other countries throughout the world. However, blood type plays a much more prominent role in Japanese and other East Asian countries than astrolog… | /r/MensRights | 19/02/15 02:10 AM |
| 3 | TIL: Until 2003, thousands of gays were convicted of gross indecency under UK law. Lesbians were not.LGBT rights by country or territory: Laws affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or territory—everything from legal recognition of same-sex marriage or other types of partnerships, to the death penalty as punishment for same-sex romantic/sexual activity or identity. LGBT rights are considered human rights and civil rights. LGBT rights laws include, but are not limited to, the following: allowing of men who have sex with men to donate blood, govern… | /r/MensRights | 19/02/15 12:12 AM |
| 1 | A question to MRAsIntersex: Intersex, in humans and other animals, is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female. Such variation may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female. Intersex infants and children, such as those with ambiguous outer genitalia, may be surgically and/or hormonally altered to fit into a perceived more… | /r/MensRights | 18/02/15 04:29 PM |
| 1 | If someone is horribly betrayed by their SO, does your attitude toward the victim change depending on their gender?Freydís Eiríksdóttir: Freydís Eiríksdóttir was said to be born around 950 to Erik the Red (as in her patronym) who was associated with the Norse exploration of North America and the finding of Vinland with his son Leif Erikson. The only medieval and primary sources we have of Freydís are the two Vinland sagas; the Grœnlendinga saga and the Eiríks saga rauða. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though in both Freydís appears as a masculine, strong-willed woman that would defy the odds of her … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/02/15 07:30 AM |
| 5 | Australian feminist workforce agency has given up any pretense of comparing equal work for equal pay in gender pay gap. Now, "pay equity" is simply about making sure women earn the same as men, regardless of their own choices.Disparate impact: In United States anti-discrimination law, the theory of disparate impact holds that practices in employment, housing, or other areas may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate "adverse impact" on persons along the lines of a protected trait. Although the protected traits vary by statute, most federal civil rights laws include race, color, religion, national origin, and gender as protected traits, and some laws include disability status and othe… | /r/MensRights | 18/02/15 04:33 AM |
| 2 | What are the Blue Pill/non-PUA resources on learning how to flirt physically?Cargo cult: A cargo cult is a Melanesian millenarian movement encompassing a diverse range of practices and occurring in the wake of contact with the commercial networks of colonizing societies. The name derives from the belief that various ritualistic acts will lead to a bestowing of material wealth ("cargo"). Cargo cults often develop during a combination of crises. Under conditions of social stress, such a movement may form under the leadership of a charismatic figure. This leader may have a … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/02/15 03:30 PM |
| 2 | UK: Judges to order DNA tests in parentage disputes. All family court judges in England will be able to order DNA tests to determine a child's parentage from September.Section 13. France of article Parental testing: Paternity testing is regulated by the state and only allowed in certain cases: Without a court order the the express consent of the person must be obtained in writing before the carrying out of the examination, after the person has been duly informed of its nature and its purpose. With a court order (if consent could not be obtained) This is partially due to the official desire to "preserve the peace" within French families, with the French governm… | /r/MensRights | 17/02/15 02:56 PM |
| 1 | Eye-opener: Camgirl Mercedes Carrera talks about how her friend became the victim of a violent rape, how the media chooses to ignore real victims, and how fake victimhood is glorified and glamourisedBombing of Tokyo: Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū ?), often referred to as a series of firebombing raids, was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. The US first mounted a small-scale raid on Tokyo in April, 1942. Strategic bombing and urban area bombing began in 1944 after the long-range B-29 Superfortress bomber entered service, first deployed from China and thereafter the Mariana Islands. B-29 raids… | /r/MensRights | 17/02/15 08:16 AM |
| 8 | Police allow woman to kidnap 6 month old and leave Canada despite the father getting a court order. Father sues police.Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film conceived and created by Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne's close friend Andrew Bagby was allegedly murdered by Shirley Jane Turner after Bagby ended their tumultuous relationship. Shortly after she was arrested, she announced she was pregnant with Bagby's child, a boy she named Zachary. Kuenne decided to interview numerous relatives, friends, and associates of Andrew Bagby a… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/15 06:48 PM |
| 2 | Crazy woman attacks a guy for flying a drone on the beach. She tells the cops he assaulted her. She goes to jail because video doesn't lie. ( x-post /r/videos )Property damage: Property damage (or, in England and Wales, criminal damage) is damage to or the destruction of public or private property, caused either by a person who is not its owner or by natural phenomena. Property damage caused by persons is generally categorized by its cause: neglect (including oversight and human error), and intentional damage. Intentional property damage is often, but not always, malicious. Property damage caused by natural phenomena may be legally attributed to a pers… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 16/02/15 03:29 PM |
| 1 | 54% US women prefer cut penises, only 3% uncut - If ever there was evidence of the necessity of the MRM.Prevalence of circumcision: The prevalence of circumcision for a country refers to the percentage of males in that country's population who have been circumcised. It does not refer to the proportion of newborn males who undergo neonatal circumcision. Estimates of the proportion of males worldwide that are circumcised vary from 1⁄6 to 1⁄3. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that globally 30% of males aged 15 and over are circumcised, with almost 70% of these being Muslim. Male circ… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/15 10:56 AM |
| 1 | What do you think of feminists who try to undermine science as a source for knowledge?Symbiosis: Symbiosis (from Greek σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species. In 1877, Albert Bernhard Frank used the word symbiosis (which previously had been used to depict people living together in community) to describe the mutualistic relationship in lichens. In 1869, the German mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as "the living together of unlike organisms." The definition of symbiosis is controversi… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/02/15 10:08 AM |
| 1 | Why shouldn't I just kill myself?Evolutionary approaches to depression: Evolutionary approaches to depression are attempts by evolutionary psychologists to use the theory of evolution to shed light on the problem of mood disorders. Depression has generally been thought of as dysfunction, but it does not increase with age the way organic dysfunction commonly does. Some researchers have surmised that the disorder may have evolutionary roots, in the same way that others suggest evolutionary contributions to schizophrenia, sickle c… | /r/askTRP | 15/02/15 09:17 PM |
| 1 | Circumcision?Gender roles in agriculture: Gender roles in agriculture are a frequent subject of study by sociologists and farm economists. Historians also study them, as they are important in understanding the social structure of agrarian, and even industrial, societies. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Housewife</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Women</sup> <sup>and</sup> <sup>agriculture</sup> <sup>in</sup> <sup>Sub-Saharan</sup> <sup>Africa <sup>|</sup> <sup>Gender</sup> <sup>role</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Gender</sup> <… | /r/MensRights | 15/02/15 04:21 PM |
| 1 | Does TRP support rapists?Common side-blotched lizard: The common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) is a species of side-blotched lizard found on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is notable for having a unique form of polymorphism wherein each of the three different male morphs utilizes a different strategy in acquiring mates. The three morphs compete against each other following a pattern of rock, paper, scissors, where one morph has advantages over another but is outcompeted by the third. The specific epith… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/02/15 01:44 PM |
| 1 | Men jailed for rape of woman who admitted to being so drunk she did not know whether she had consented to sexSomnophilia: Somnophilia (from Latin "somnus" = sleep and Greek φιλία, "-philia" = love) also known as sleeping princess syndrome and sleeping beauty syndrome is a paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious. The condition has a high degree of correlation throughout history with incest and may progress to necrophilia. The Dictionary of Psychology categorized somnophilia within the classification of predatory paraphilias. Interesting: Unconsciousness |… | /r/MensRights | 15/02/15 12:34 PM |
| 1 | (Internet Archive Denial) Game developer caught making a post to harass herself on the Steam forum for her game, because she forgot to log out of her Developer account first.Gender identity disorder: Gender identity disorder (GID) or gender dysphoria is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe people who experience significant dysphoria (discontent) with the sex and gender they were assigned at birth. Evidence suggests that people who identify with a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth may do so not just due to psychological or behavioral causes, but also biological ones related to their genetics, the makeup of thei… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/02/15 12:09 PM |
| 2 | Men jailed for rape of woman who admitted to being so drunk she did not know whether she had consented to sexBlackout (drug-related amnesia): A blackout is a phenomenon caused by the intake of any substance or medication in which long term memory creation is impaired, therefore causing a complete inability to recall the past. Blackouts can be caused by any substance, but are most frequently associated with GABAergic drugs. Blackouts are frequently described as having effects similar to that of anterograde amnesia, in which the subject cannot recall any events after the event that caused amnesia. 'Black… | /r/MensRights | 15/02/15 06:44 AM |
| 1 | Had a few brief encounters with female around campus and we texted back and forth, then later she posted online about me with a lot of lies. Advice badly needed please.Legal burden of proof: The burden of proof (Latin: onus probandi) is the imperative on a party in a trial to produce the evidence that will shift the conclusion away from the default position to one's own position. The burden of proof is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the best translation of which seems to be: "the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges." He who does not carry the burden of proof carries the benefit… | /r/MensRights | 14/02/15 09:17 PM |
| 2 | Did encountering TRP change your opinion on milder things like PUASection 1. Influence of article Robert Cialdini: Cialdini's theory of influence in based on the principles of reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity. Reciprocity – People tend to return a favor, thus the pervasiveness of free samples in marketing. In his conferences, he often uses the example of Ethiopia providing thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid to Mexico just after the 1985 earthquake, despite Ethiopia suffering from a crippling famine an… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/02/15 08:30 PM |
| 2 | 21 year old walks away from court. Not guilty for killing elderly couple with car while using mobile phoneEthan Couch: Ethan Couch (born April 11, 1997) is an American who was sentenced to 10 years probation after being convicted of killing four pedestrians and seriously injuring two others while driving drunk near Fort Worth, Texas. He was 16 at the time. On June 15, 2013, he crashed a pickup truck into pedestrians. In December 2013, Judge Jean Hudson Boyd sentenced him to therapy at a long-term, in-patient facility, after his attorneys successfully argued that the teen suffered from "affluenza" an… | /r/PussyPass | 14/02/15 06:44 PM |
| 1 | Hey guys I wanted to ask for some examples of good "masculine" body language.Contrapposto: Contrapposto is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. It can also be used to refer to multiple figures which are in counter-pose (or opposite pose) to one another. It can further encompass the tension as a figure changes from resting on … | /r/askTRP | 14/02/15 04:48 PM |
| 4 | Judge Judy denies this girl's pussy pass throughout her entire testimony.Judith Sheindlin: Judith Susan Sheindlin (née Blum; born October 21, 1942), better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author. Since 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own successful Daytime Emmy Award winning reality courtroom series named after her, Judge Judy. Sheindlin passed the New York bar examination in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. In 1982 Mayor Ed Koch appointed her as a judge, first in criminal court, then later … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 14/02/15 10:15 AM |
| 2 | What does it mean for the mind of a woman to be in a man's body or vice versa if men and women have the same brains?Section 6. Brain structure of article Causes of transsexualism: In a first-of-its-kind study, Zhou et al. (1995) found that in a region of the brain called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc), a region known for sex and anxiety responses, MTF transsexuals have a female-normal size while FTM transsexuals have a male-normal size. While the transsexuals studied had taken hormones, this was accounted for by including non-transsexual male and female controls who, for a variety of medical r… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/02/15 09:57 AM |
| 1 | Feminism is not a dating strategy.Grok: Grok /ˈɡrɒk/ is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, where it is defined as follows: Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man. The Oxford English… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/15 09:15 PM |
| 1 | What do you think of feminist Masha Gessen?Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author's intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Landover Baptist Church | Christwire Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/15 03:37 PM |
| 2 | What attracts people to TBP/feminism?Egalitarianism: Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism or equalism —is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people. Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English. It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/15 02:03 PM |
| 1 | Does TRP support rapists?Second-class citizen: A second-class citizen is a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there. While not necessarily slaves, outlaws or criminals, second-class citizens have limited legal rights, civil rights and socioeconomic opportunities, and are often subject to mistreatment or neglect at the hands of their putative superiors. Instead of being protected by the law, the law… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/15 09:27 AM |
| 1 | Powering through LMR becomes potential assault when it's done in an everyday-threatening way, even if she "can say no any second"Conversion disorder: A conversion disorder causes patients to suffer from neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits without a definable organic cause. It is thought that symptoms arise in response to stressful situations affecting a patient's mental health. Conversion disorder is considered a psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM-5). Formerly known as "hysteria", the disorder has arguably been known for m… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/15 06:39 AM |
| 3 | Columbia to force students to write poetry to combat sexual assaultStruggle session: A struggle session was a form of public humiliation used by the Communist Party of China in the Mao Zedong era to shape public opinion and to humiliate, persecute, and/or execute political rivals and class enemies. In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit to various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed. Struggle sessions were often held at the workplace of the accused, but were somet… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/15 01:07 AM |
| 1 | Meninism is about women too (why there is no need for a female rights movement)Equalism: Equalism or Equalist may refer to: Egalitarianism Gender equality Racial equality Social equality The Equalists, an antagonistic group opposed to "bending" (elemental martial arts) in the first season of the animated series The Legend of Korra Interesting: Egalitarianism | 0.999... | Equals sign Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 10:12 PM |
| 2 | [Meta] The top 100 posts by subject on /r/feminism and /r/mensrightsHermesmann v. Seyer: Hermesmann v. Seyer (State ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer 847 P.2d 1273 (Kan. 1993)) was a precedent-setting Kansas, United States case in which Colleen Hermesmann successfully argued that a woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a criminal act committed by the woman. The case was brought in her name by the then Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Kansas</sup… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 05:29 PM |
| 1 | Sexual problems?Micropenis: Micropenis is an unusually small penis. A common criterion is a dorsal (measured on top) erect penile length of at least 2.5 standard deviations smaller than the mean human penis size, or smaller than about 7 cm (2 3⁄4 in) for an adult when compared to an average erection of 12.5 cm (5 in). The condition is usually recognized shortly after birth. The term is most often used medically when the rest of the penis, scrotum, and perineum are without ambiguity, such as hypospadias. Micrope… | /r/askTRP | 12/02/15 05:20 PM |
| 2 | Feminists in UK Labour Party launch Woman-only manifesto because 53% of people who don't vote are female, seriously!Feminist Initiative (Sweden): Feminist Initiative (Swedish: Feministiskt initiativ, abbreviated Fi or F!) is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed (from a previous pressure group of the same name) in 2005, and announced on 9 September 2005 that it would put up candidates for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden. After running in the consequent two Riksdag elections, as well as the European Parliamentary election of 2009, Fi had not taken any seats in either parliament.… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 01:40 PM |
| 1 | While France bans paternity tests as fatherhood is psychological not biological why in this case - Families of two women accidentally switched at birth awarded €1.88m in ruling by French courtChartier v Chartier: Chartier v Chartier, 1999 1 S.C.R. 242 is a leading Canadian case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada on the legal role of step parents in a marriage. The Court held that a step parent who is found to be in loco parentis cannot unilaterally withdraw from the family relationship. Gerald Chartier was married to Sharon Chartier who had a child from a previous marriage. Gerald had helped care for the child and took the role a father. The two were separated and Sharon applied … | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 08:01 AM |
| 1 | While France bans paternity tests as fatherhood is psychological not biological why in this case - Families of two women accidentally switched at birth awarded €1.88m in ruling by French courtSection 13. France of article Parental testing: Any paternity testing without a court order is banned, due to the official desire to "preserve the peace" within French families, with the French government citing psychologists who state that fatherhood is determined by society, rather than biology. French men often circumvent these laws by sending samples of DNA to foreign laboratories, but risk prosecution if caught. The maximum penalty for carrying out secret paternity testing is one year in pr… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 05:34 AM |
| 1 | Why do Bluepillers/Feminists insist on throwing around the word "entitled"?Love Jihad: Love Jihad, also called Romeo Jihad, is an alleged activity under which young Muslim boys and men reportedly target young girls belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love. Arising in a background of national religious tension, including strong cultural prohibitions against interfaith marriage, the alleged activity is based on the power of emotional appeal in religious conversion. The controversial issue has garnered international attention. The conce… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/02/15 08:14 PM |
| 1 | Getting friendly with an Ex for Machiavellian reasons.Section 4. Campsite rule of article Savage Love: In a relationship with a large age and/or experience gap, the older partner/more experienced partner has the responsibility to leave the younger/less experienced partner in at least as good a state (emotionally and physically) as before the relationship. The campsite rule includes things like leaving the younger/less experienced partner with no STDs, no unwanted pregnancies, and not overburdening them with emotional and sexual baggage. Interesting… | /r/askTRP | 11/02/15 07:55 PM |
| 1 | Feminist aborts fetus for being male. Calls it a monster.Section 11. Eugenics of article Margaret Sanger: As part of her efforts to promote birth control, Sanger found common cause with proponents of eugenics, believing that they both sought to "assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit." Sanger was a proponent of negative eugenics, which aims to improve human hereditary traits through social intervention by reducing the reproduction of those who were considered unfit. Sanger's eugenic policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, fr… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/15 10:30 PM |
| 1 | Why don't feminist go after REAL misogyny?Cognitive dissonance: In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. When inconsistency (dissonance) is experienced, individuals tend to become psychologically uncomfortabl… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/15 08:44 PM |
| 1 | Red & Blue Pillers: Is feminism "equal rights and equal treatment under the law", or is it something else?The Man: "The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise. The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either passively, openly or via sabotage. Interesting: The Man and The Journey Tour | … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/02/15 07:44 PM |
| 1 | My college just built a brand new gym and guess what? No men are allowed from 3-5 p.m.!Section 4. Sexual harassment of article Catharine MacKinnon: According to an article published by Deborah Dinner in the March/April 2006 issue of Legal Affairs, MacKinnon first became interested in issues concerning sexual harassment when she heard that an administrative assistant at Cornell University resigned after being refused a transfer when she complained of her supervisor's harassing behavior, and then was denied unemployment benefits because she quit for "personal" reasons. It was at a c… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/15 06:29 PM |
| 1 | Two news articles: lynching is racist but not sexist, memories may be false (for a man)Lynching in the United States: Lynching, the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action, occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 18th century through the 1960s. Lynchings took place most frequently against African-American men in the Southern US after the American Civil War and emancipation, and particularly from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in 1892. Lynchings were also very common in the Old West, where victims were primarily men of Mexican and Chinese minorities, alth… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/15 04:36 PM |
| 1 | My college just built a brand new gym and guess what? No men are allowed from 3-5 p.m.!One-drop rule: The one-drop rule is a sociological and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry ("one drop" of African blood) is considered to be black (Negro in historical terms). This concept evolved over the course of the 19th century and became codified into law in the 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" and is an exampl… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/15 04:36 PM |
| 1 | Negatives of making a plate mother of my child?Heritability of IQ: Research on heritability of IQ infers from the similarity of IQ in closely related persons the proportion of variance of IQ among individuals in a study population that is associated with genetic variation within that population. This provides a maximum estimate of genetic versus environmental influence for phenotypic variation in IQ in that population. "Heritability", in this sense, "refers to the genetic contribution to variance within a population and in a specific environ… | /r/askTRP | 10/02/15 11:07 AM |
| 2 | What does AWALT mean to you?Women are wonderful: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also viewed p… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/02/15 08:14 AM |
| 1 | Should men pursue higher education (especially postgraduate education)? Or drop-out and focus on seeking Alpha?Anarchist communism: Anarchist communism (also known as anarcho-communism, free communism, libertarian communism, and communist anarchism ) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wages and private property (while retaining respect for personal property), and in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guidin… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/15 08:13 PM |
| 2 | Australian state plans to violate sperm donar anonymity. Donar children will be able to track down biological fathers and sue them for support/inheritance.Shawarma: NSFW ? Shawarma or Shawurma (Arabic: شاورما / ALA-LC: shāwarmā;) is a Levantine Arab meat preparation, where lamb, chicken, turkey, beef, veal, or mixed meats are placed on a spit (commonly a vertical spit in restaurants), and may be grilled for as long as a day. Shavings are cut off the block of meat for serving, and the remainder of the block of meat is kept heated on the rotating spit. Although it can be served in shavings on a plate (generally with accompaniments), shawarma also r… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/15 03:11 PM |
| 1 | Response to Buzzfeed's attack on MRA: As the attacks step up, so will ISection 6. History of article Parental testing: The first form of any kind of parental testing was blood typing, or matching blood types between the child and alleged parent, which became available in the 1920s. Under this form of testing, the blood types of the child and parents are compared, and it can be determined whether there is any possibility of a parental link. For example, two O blood type parents can only produce a child with an O blood type, and two parents with a B blood type can pr… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/15 12:57 PM |
| 1 | Woman jailed after 11th false rape claim in a decade.Blackstone's formulation: In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", ...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. Image i Interesting: False positives and false negatives | Presumption of innocence Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will a… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/15 07:41 AM |
| 1 | The Guardian complains about "evidence free government".Dame (title): Dame is the female equivalent of the honour of knighthood in the British honours system and several other countries such as Australia and among European orders of chivalry. (The word "damehood" is rarely used but is shown on the official British Monarchy website as being the correct term). It is the equivalent form of address to "Sir" for knights. A woman appointed to the grades of Dame Commander or Dame Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Most Distinguished O… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/15 01:08 AM |
| 1 | All Models Are Wrong: On Why We Need the RedpillLawrence Summers: Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Summers became a professor of economics at Harvard University in 1983. He left Harvard in 1991, working as the Chief Economist at the World Bank from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs of the United States Department of the Tre… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/02/15 09:21 PM |
| 1 | Woman attacks cameraman with dog leash. Cameraman calmly maces her. Her dog consoles her.[Militsiya](here)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militsiya](here\)): See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PussyPassDenied | 08/02/15 06:08 PM |
| 3 | GF/LTR keeps constant contact with ex-bf and even works with himFoot-in-the-door technique: Foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique is a compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request. The foot-in-the-door technique succeeds owing to a basic human reality that social scientists call "successive approximations". Essentially, the more a subject goes along with small requests or commitments, the more likely that subject is to continue in a desired direction of attit… | /r/askTRP | 08/02/15 05:04 PM |
| 2 | Psychology as a major?Section 3. National Science Foundation of article STEM fields: Many organizations in the United States follow the guidelines of the National Science Foundation on what constitutes a STEM field. The NSF uses a broader definition of STEM subjects that includes subjects in the fields of chemistry, computer and information technology science, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematical sciences, physics and astronomy, social sciences (anthropology, economics, psychology and sociology), and… | /r/askTRP | 08/02/15 01:12 PM |
| 1 | Why don't feminist go after REAL misogyny?Hip-hop feminism: Hip-hop feminism is loosely defined as young feminists born after 1964 who approach the political with a mixture of feminist and hip-hop sensibilities. It shares many similarities with black feminism and third wave feminism, but is a distinct self-identification that carries its own weight and creates its own political spaces. Hip-hop feminism was created by feminists who felt that black feminism was not equipped to consider the issues of women belonging to the hip-hop generati… | /r/MensRights | 08/02/15 05:37 AM |
| 1 | TIL that Jane Roe from Roe Vs. Wade was a false rape accuser.Roe v. Wade: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health… | /r/MensRights | 08/02/15 02:31 AM |
| 3 | Dumb bitch calls police and has train stopped because passenger asks her to move from seat he has prebooked. She claims assault, entire carriage backs up guy.Egalitarianism: Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism or equalism —is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people. Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English. It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 08/02/15 12:16 AM |
| 0 | Fat-shaming RPers, what do you make of this?Flynn effect: The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. When intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 or 16 IQ points. When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/02/15 11:50 PM |
| 1 | "Women in computing" is a very feminist oriented article I just read on Wikipedia.Women in computing: Global concerns about current and future roles of women in computing occupations have gained more importance with the emerging information age. Historically, women played a crucial role in the evolution of computing, with many of the first programmers during the early 20th century being female. These concerns motivated public policy debates addressing gender equality as computer applications exerted increasing influence in society. This dialogue helped to expand information t… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/15 05:10 AM |
| 1 | "Women in computing" is a very feminist oriented article I just read on Wikipedia.Women in computing: Global concerns about current and future roles of women in computing occupations have gained more importance with the emerging information age. Historically, women played a crucial role in the evolution of computing, with many of the first programmers during the early 20th century being female. These concerns motivated public policy debates addressing gender equality as computer applications exerted increasing influence in society. This dialogue helped to expand information t… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/15 03:44 AM |
| 3 | /r/theredpill, scientific illiteracy, and insecurity.Begging the question: Begging the question means "assuming the conclusion (of an argument)", a type of circular reasoning. This is an informal fallacy where the conclusion that one is attempting to prove is included in the initial premise of an argument, often in an indirect way that conceals this fact. The term "begging the question" originated in the 16th century as a mistranslation of Latin petitio principii "assuming the initial point". In modern vernacular usage, "to beg the question" is so… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/02/15 11:32 PM |
| 1 | This was sent out to all the students on my campus. I want to say something to the director...Scope neglect: Scope neglect or scope insensitivity is a cognitive bias that occurs when the valuation of a problem is not valued with a multiplicative relationship to its size. Scope neglect is a specific form of extension neglect. In one study, respondents were asked how much they were willing to pay to prevent migrating birds from drowning in uncovered oil ponds by covering the oil ponds with protective nets. Subjects were told that either 2,000, or 20,000, or 200,000 migrating birds were aff… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/15 09:57 PM |
| 1 | Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is actively helping a campaign of "harassment, violence, bullying and intimidation" against a man proven innocent of rapeLeft-wing politics: In left-right politics, left-wing politics are political positions or activities that accept or support social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. They typically involve concern for those in society who are perceived as disadvantaged relative to others and an assumption that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. The political terms Left and Right were coined during the French Revolution… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/15 07:17 PM |
| 1 | Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is actively helping a campaign of "harassment, violence, bullying and intimidation" against a man proven innocent of rapeWarren Farrell: Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American educator, activist and author of seven books on men's and women's issues. He came to prominence in the 1970s, championing the cause of second wave feminism, and serving on the New York City Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW). However, he left NOW and is now recognized as an important figure in the modern men's movement. His books cover ten fields: history, law, sociology and politics (The Myth of Male Power… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/15 07:13 PM |
| 1 | Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is actively helping a campaign of "harassment, violence, bullying and intimidation" against a man proven innocent of rapeSection 10. Opposition to the ERA of article Equal Rights Amendment: Opponents of the ERA focused on traditional gender roles, such as how men do the fighting in wartime. They pointed out that the amendment would eliminate the men-only draft requirement and guarantee the possibility that women would be subject to conscription and be required to have military combat roles in future wars if it were passed. Defense of traditional gender roles proved to be a useful tactic. In Illinois, supporters of… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/15 07:08 PM |
| 1 | Ohio University Settles First Amendment Lawsuit for $32,000 Over T-Shirt Slogan, after Administrators falsely claimed T-shirts “objectified women” and “promoted prostitution.”Matt Taylor (scientist): Matt Taylor (born 1973 or 1972 ) is a British astrophysicist. He is best known for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He is Project Scientist of the Rosetta mission. Image i Interesting: Matt (name) | Manor Park, London | University of Liverpool Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment sco… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/15 06:35 PM |
| 1 | What do you guys think of this comment from Yahoo! Answers (from 6 years ago)?Thousand-yard stare: The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase coined to describe the limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier, but the symptom it describes may also be found among victims of other types of trauma. A characteristic of shell shock, the despondent stare reflects dissociation from trauma. The thousand-yard stare is thus often seen in cases of incipient post-traumatic stress disorder. It does not necessarily indicate PTSD, however, nor will it alway… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/02/15 02:57 PM |
| 1 | What statements/generalizations about men are you tired of hearing from women?Testosterone poisoning: Testosterone poisoning is a pejorative neologism that refers not to actual poisoning, but to a negative perception of stereotypical aspects of male behavior. This speculative and controversial expression is based on a belief that men and boys with more masculine traits have more negative traits than they would otherwise. The term capitalizes on the perception that masculinity is controlled by the androgen testosterone. Interesting: Index of masculism topics | Man | Carl S… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/15 02:22 AM |
| 1 | Taking aim at Sociology, esp The Sociology of GenderHjernevask: Hjernevask (Brainwash) is a Norwegian popular science documentary series that aired on Norwegian television in 2010. The series was produced by Harald Eia and Ole Martin Ihle, and was completed in seven episodes consisting of interviews with Norwegian and foreign researchers who have different views on the nature versus nurture debate. Image i Interesting: Harald Eia | Nordic Gender Institute | Team Antonsen Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment scor… | /r/MensRights | 05/02/15 08:12 PM |
| 1 | Feminists argue now that for transsexuals to pretend they’re women is insulting to real women - a genital form of "blackface"Womyn: "Womyn" is one of several alternative spellings of the English word "women" used by some feminists. There are many alternative spellings, including "womban" and "womon" (singular), and "wimmin" (plural). Some writers who use alternative spellings may see them as an expression of female independence and a repudiation of traditions that define females by reference to a male norm. Interesting: Womyn-born womyn | Mountain Moving Coffeehouse | Women only space | Transfeminism Parent commenter … | /r/MensRights | 05/02/15 06:33 PM |
| 3 | UVA Student Newspaper Elects Its First Ever All-Female BoardThe Dearborn Independent: The Dearborn Independent, also known as The Ford International Weekly, was a weekly newspaper established in 1901, but published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927. The paper reached a circulation of 900,000 by 1925, second only to the New York Daily News, largely due to a quota system for promotion imposed on Ford dealers. Lawsuits regarding anti-Semitic material published in the paper caused Ford to close it, and the last issue was published in December 1927. Image … | /r/MensRights | 05/02/15 01:55 PM |
| 1 | Womens-sexuality-is-the-cause-of-your-pain-Thugtician Wisdom.Section 21. Gender differences of article Big Five personality traits: Cross-cultural research has shown some patterns of gender differences on responses to the NEO-PI-R and the Big Five Inventory. For example, women consistently report higher Neuroticism, Agreeableness, warmth (an extraversion facet) and openness to feelings, and men often report higher assertiveness (a facet of extraversion) and openness to ideas as assessed by the NEO-PI-R. A study of gender differences in 55 nations using th… | /r/MGTOW | 05/02/15 07:52 AM |
| 1 | Australia's Macquarie Dictionary chooses feminist favorite "mansplaining" as its word of the year.Section 6. Current usage of article Tory: "Tory" has become shorthand for a member of the Conservative Party or for the party in general. Some Conservatives call themselves "Tory" and the term is common in the media, but deprecated by some media channels. In Canada, the term "Tory" may describe any member of the Conservative Party of Canada, its predecessor party the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, or any similarly named provincial party; the term is frequently used in contrast to "Gri… | /r/MensRights | 05/02/15 07:45 AM |
| 1 | Cenk Uygur Butts Heads With Men's Rights Activist Karen StraughanDavid Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/15 08:11 PM |
| 2 | This was sent out to all the students on my campus. I want to say something to the director...False accusation of rape: A false accusation of rape is the intentional reporting of a rape by an alleged victim when no rape has occurred. Studies have found that police typically classify between 1.5 and 8% of rape accusations as unfounded, unproven or false, however researchers say those determinations are often dubious. The "conventional scholarly wisdom," according to American law professor Michelle J. Anderson, is that two percent of rape complaints made to the police are false. The United… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/15 08:05 PM |
| 1 | Human Mating Strategies: Do You Stay or Stray?R/K selection theory: In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring. The focus upon either increased quantity of offspring at the expense of individual parental investment, or reduced quantity of offspring with a corresponding increased parental investment, varies widely, seemingly to promote success in particular environments. The etymology is from an equation where r comes from rate an… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/02/15 03:46 PM |
| 2 | Own Your Shit Weekly [Feb 3, 2015]Learned optimism: Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. It is contrasted with learned helplessness. Learning optimism is done by consciously challenging any negative self talk. Interesting: Martin Seligman | Optimism | Foundation series | Play (activity) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MarriedRedPill | 04/02/15 03:03 AM |
| 1 | Ohio University Settles First Amendment Lawsuit for $32,000 Over T-Shirt Slogan, after Administrators falsely claimed T-shirts “objectified women” and “promoted prostitution.”Women in firefighting: Firefighting was formerly an all-male profession. While it is dominated by men in both professional and volunteer contexts today, there are women who actively fight fire alongside their male counterparts. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> - Sheena Groom, female firefighter after competitive event 2006 <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Fire</sup> <sup>authority</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Outline</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>firefighting <sup>|</sup> <sup>International</sup> <sup>Firefighters'</s… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/15 02:48 AM |
| 1 | If women should live their lives based on what will most likely happen (the wall, etc) then why should men hope for/rely on the best-case scenario (Hugh Hefner, etc)?Age disparity in sexual relationships: Age disparity in sexual relationships and sexual relationships between individuals of a significant difference in age have been documented for most of recorded history and have been regarded with a wide range of attitudes, from normalized acceptance to taboo. Concepts of these relationships and of the exact definition of a "significant" age disparity have developed over time and vary between societies, legal systems (particularly with regards to the age of … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/02/15 11:55 PM |
| 1 | Ohio University Settles First Amendment Lawsuit for $32,000 Over T-Shirt Slogan, after Administrators falsely claimed T-shirts “objectified women” and “promoted prostitution.”United States Declaration of Independence: The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously appr… | /r/MensRights | 03/02/15 11:12 PM |
| 1 | How Exactly Does Tinder Make RevenueSection 6. Businesses of article IAC %28company%29: IAC owns a number of companies and websites, including: About.com Ask.com Ask.fm Chemistry.com CityGrid Media Citysearch CollegeHumor DailyBurn Dictionary.com Electus HomeAdvisor HowAboutWe Investopedia Match.com Meetic Mindspark Interactive Network OkCupid People Media PriceRunner Shoebuy.com SpeedDate.com The Daily Beast The Princeton Review Tinder Tutor.com Twoo Vimeo Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment sc… | /r/askTRP | 03/02/15 07:34 PM |
| 1 | RISUG / VASALGEL - Any personal experience?Section 11. Success rates: pregnancy of article Vasectomy reversal: The pregnancy rate is often seen as a more reliable way of measuring the success of a vasectomy reversal than the patency rates, as they measure the real-life success of whether the man succeeds in the aim of having a new child. It is important to appreciate that female age is the single most powerful factor determining the pregnancy rate following any fertility treatment and vasectomy reversal is no exception. No large studies … | /r/askTRP | 03/02/15 07:26 PM |
| 1 | Super Bowl kneels before feminist governance: "Like a girl" campaign fabricates false moral panic about nonexistent crisis in girl's self esteem ... and this time boys (not men) are to blame.Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them! controversy: "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" is a slogan on a T-shirt by Florida clothing company David and Goliath. The slogan is printed next to a cartoon image of a boy running away from five stones flying in his direction. People magazine ran a story on the T-shirt. In December 2003, radio-host and fathers' rights activist Glenn Sacks started a campaign against the T-shirts, on the grounds of misandry. This raised national attention and led to th… | /r/MensRights | 03/02/15 03:04 AM |
| 1 | Hypergamy and me (what I've learned).Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author's intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 03/02/15 01:37 AM |
| 2 | Feminist explains why porn ban is necessary: "A recent German study found a clear negative correlation between consumption of Internet pornography and marriage rates among young men!!!"Feminist sex wars: The feminist sex wars, also known as the lesbian sex wars, or simply the sex wars or porn wars, are debates amongst feminists regarding a number of issues broadly relating to sexuality and sexual activity. The debates, which Lisa Duggan said felt like war, polarised into two sides during the late 1970s and early 1980s and the aftermath of this polarisation of feminist views during the sex wars continues to this day. The sides were characterized by anti-porn feminist and sex-po… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 09:04 AM |
| 3 | Feminist explains why porn ban is necessary: "A recent German study found a clear negative correlation between consumption of Internet pornography and marriage rates among young men!!!"Feminist sex wars: The feminist sex wars, also known as the lesbian sex wars, or simply the sex wars or porn wars, are debates amongst feminists regarding a number of issues broadly relating to sexuality and sexual activity. The debates, which Lisa Duggan said felt like war, polarised into two sides during the late 1970s and early 1980s and the aftermath of this polarisation of feminist views during the sex wars continues to this day. The sides were characterized by anti-porn feminist and sex-po… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 08:55 AM |
| 2 | Ex-feminists of the MRM, what was the straw that broke the camel's back?Women and children first: "Women and children first" (or to a lesser extent, the Birkenhead Drill ) is a historical code of conduct whereby the lives of women and children were to be saved first in a life-threatening situation (typically abandoning ship, when survival resources such as lifeboats were limited). While the phrase first appeared in the 1860 novel Harrington: A Story of True Love, by William Douglas O'Connor, the first documented application of "women and children first" occurred dur… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 08:20 AM |
| 1 | Ex-feminists of the MRM, what was the straw that broke the camel's back?Ideology: An ideology is a set of conscious and/or unconscious ideas which constitute one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology is a comprehensive normative vision, a way of looking at things, as argued in several philosophical tendencies (see political ideologies), and/or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society (a "received consciousness" or product of socialization), as suggested in some Marxist and Critical theory accounts. While the… | /r/MensRights | 01/02/15 10:44 PM |
| 1 | After one week of a more truthful version of events, Wikipedia's Gamergate entry reverts back to its usual lies and misinformation.Gamergate controversy: Gamergate is a controversy related to sexism in video game culture. It garnered significant public attention after August 2014 when sexist and misogynistic attacks were targeting a number of women within the video game industry. Prominent targets of the attacks include female game developers Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu, and cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian. These attacks were primarily performed under the Twitter hashtag #gamergate and at times coordinated in the online forum… | /r/MensRights | 01/02/15 02:29 PM |
| 1 | Just because it's frigging cool! -- Lars Andersen: a new [old] level of archeryNot even wrong: The phrase "not even wrong" describes any argument that purports to be scientific but fails at some fundamental level, usually in that it contains a terminal logical fallacy or it cannot be falsified by experiment (i.e. tested with the possibility of being rejected), or cannot be used to make predictions about the natural world. The phrase is generally attributed to theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or sloppy thinking. Ru… | /r/MGTOW | 01/02/15 07:47 AM |
| 2 | Front page is the Globe and Mail today. Apparently only men hit.Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 01/02/15 05:59 AM |
| 3 | Female cop straight up pepper sprays 3-5 civilians for no reason and no one bats an eye.Disorderly conduct: Disorderly conduct is a criminal charge in most jurisdictions in the United States. Typically, disorderly conduct makes it a crime to be drunk in public, to "disturb the peace", or to loiter in certain areas. Many types of unruly conduct may fit the definition of disorderly conduct, as such statutes are often used as "catch-all" crimes. Police may use a disorderly conduct charge to keep the peace when people are behaving in a disruptive manner to themselves or others, but oth… | /r/PussyPass | 31/01/15 06:54 PM |
| 1 | Has any Red Piller or anyone at all ever checked whether male partner count correlates with divorce rates.Divorce: Divorce (or the dissolution of marriage) is the termination of a marital union, the canceling and/or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country and/or state. Divorce should not be confused with annulment, which declares the marriage null and void; with legal separation (a legal process by which a married couple may formalize a de facto separation while … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/01/15 06:41 PM |
| 1 | "Sebastian Junger Knows Why Young Men Go To War" -- A compelling article on the role of men in society and the social damage caused by feminism and feministsNeuroplasticity: For the 2014 album by the band Cold Specks, see Neuroplasticity (Cold Specks album) Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity, is an umbrella term that encompasses both synaptic plasticity and non-synaptic plasticity—it refers to changes in neural pathways and synapses due to changes in behavior, environment, neural processes, thinking, emotions, as well as changes resulting from bodily injury. Neuroplasticity has replaced the formerly-held position that the brain is a phy… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/15 06:21 AM |
| 1 | "misandry" is not in the default Firefox US English dictionary, but "misogyny" is.Hunspell: Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language. Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backward-compatible with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses a single-byte character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries. Interesting: MySpell | Spell (Unix) | Enchant (software) | GNU Aspell Parent commenter can toggle NSF… | /r/MensRights | 30/01/15 10:57 PM |
| 1 | University president rushed to judgment and assumed rape occurred, but a grand jury says it didn'tScottsboro Boys: The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial. The case included a frameup, an all-white jury, rushed trials, an attempted lynching, and an angry mob; it is frequently given as an example of an overall miscarriage of justice. On March 25, 1931, several people were hoboing on a freight train traveling between Chattanooga and Memphis, Tennessee. Se… | /r/MensRights | 30/01/15 10:50 PM |
| 1 | Are "nice guys" only nice?Section 17. Heritability of article Big Five personality traits: Twin studies suggest that heritability and environmental factors equally influence all five factors to the same degree. Among four recent twin studies, the mean percentage for heritability was calculated for each personality and it was concluded that heritability influenced the five factors broadly. The self-report measures were as follows: openness to experience was estimated to have a 57% genetic influence, extraversion 54%, cons… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/01/15 06:47 PM |
| 1 | holding your groundL'esprit de l'escalier: L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier ("staircase wit") is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect retort too late. Interesting: The Comeback (Seinfeld) | Comic timing | Raúl Ruiz (director) | Take Ionescu Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 30/01/15 02:40 PM |
| 1 | MGTOW in 60 seconds :)Mileva Marić: Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић; December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948) was a Serbian physicist. She was the only woman among Albert Einstein's fellow students at the Zurich Polytechnic. They developed a relationship and had a daughter Lieserl before their marriage (who either died young or was given up for adoption). After their marriage in 1903, they had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. They separated in 1914, with Marić taking the boys and returning to Zurich from Ber… | /r/MGTOW | 30/01/15 02:39 AM |
| 3 | The Kanimozhi defence: I'm just a girl! - Indian politician plays the gender card on corruption charges; promptly put in place by the judge.2G spectrum scam: The 2G spectrum scam was a major telecommunications scam and political scandal in which politicians and government officials of India illegally undercharged mobile telephone companies for frequency allocation licenses, which they then used to create 2G spectrum subscriptions for cell phones. The difference between the money collected and the money that the law mandated to be collected was estimated by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India at 1766.45 billion (US$28 billio… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 29/01/15 09:59 PM |
| 1 | The default explanation for an observed behavior should be culture, not biology, unless strong evidence shows otherwise.Science wars: The science wars were a series of intellectual exchanges, between scientific realists and postmodernist critics, about the nature of scientific theory and intellectual inquiry. They took place principally in the United States in the 1990s in the academic and mainstream press. The scientific realists accused the postmodernists of having effectively rejected scientific objectivity, the scientific method, and scientific knowledge. Scientific realists (such as Norman Levitt, Paul R. Gr… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/15 03:51 PM |
| 1 | What kind of alpha are you?Siamese fighting fish: The Siamese fighting fish, also sometimes colloquially known as the betta (Betta splendens), is a species in the gourami family which is popular as an aquarium fish. This species is native to the Mekong basin of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where it can be found in standing waters of canals, rice paddies, and floodplains. They are called pla-kad (biting fish) in Thai or trey krem in Khmer. They tend to be rather aggressive. In January 2014 a large population of t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/15 02:06 PM |
| 1 | No such thing as female privilegeLinguistic relativity: The principle of linguistic relativity holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view, or otherwise influences their cognitive processes. Popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, the principle is often defined to include two versions. The strong version says that language determines thought, and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/15 01:28 PM |
| 1 | Science Has Finally Shown That Girls Are Smarter At School Than Boys: Could you imagine if the sexes were reversed there would be all out hysteria throwing all available resources to address the problem...but because its boys we just jeer and turn a blind eyeBloom's 2 Sigma Problem: Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to an educational phenomenon observed by educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom and initially reported in 1984 in the journal "Educational Researcher". Bloom found that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students who learn via conventional instructional methods —that is, "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class". Addit… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/15 10:56 AM |
| 1 | Science Has Finally Shown That Girls Are Smarter At School Than Boys: Could you imagine if the sexes were reversed there would be all out hysteria throwing all available resources to address the problem...but because its boys we just jeer and turn a blind eyeFrench Revolution: The French Revolution (French: Révolution française) was an influential period of social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the Revolution profoundly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of theocracies and absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and democracies. Through the Revolutionary Wars, it unleashed a wave of global conflicts that extended from the Carib… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/15 09:06 AM |
| 2 | Woman slashes children's throats to keep them quiet. Whose fault is it? Hint: not hers.“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/15 02:45 AM |
| 1 | Girl "accidentally" shoots boyfriend in head. Tries to stage it as a suicide. Later confesses to holding gun to his head and pulling the trigger, but "didn't know it was loaded" so she's only being charged with manslaughter. I have no words.Point-blank range: Point-blank range is the distance between a weapon and a target of a given size its projectile is expected to strike without adjusting the weapon's elevation. Point-blank range will vary by a weapon's external ballistics characteristics and target chosen. A weapon with a flatter trajectory will permit a longer maximum point-blank range for a given target size, while a larger target will allow a longer point-blank range for a given weapon. In forensics and popular usage, point-… | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 04:31 PM |
| 0 | Sorry for the quality, I am mobile. Crazy radfem doesn't give a fuck about men. I'm the green.Antiparasitic: Antiparasitics are a class of medications which are indicated for the treatment of parasitic diseases such as nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and infectious protozoa. Image i - Skeletal formula of metronidazole Interesting: Ectoparasiticide | ATC code P | Anticestodal agent | Macrofilaricide Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 03:59 PM |
| 1 | Blue Pill what is your response to this video on male distaste of female promiscuity?Oppression: Oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. It can also be defined as an act or instance of oppressing, the state of being oppressed, and the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions or people, and anxiety. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> - Oppression derives from the concept of being weighted down, and is often depicted as such. Here, a political cartoon shows a Jew laboring under the metaphoric… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/01/15 02:18 PM |
| 2 | Is there such a thing as WGTOW?Susan Calvin: Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Robot series. She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century. She was the main character in many of Asimov's short stories concerning robots, which were later collected in the books I, Robot and The Complete Robot. Image i - Susan Calvin, as portrayed by Bridget Moynahan, in the 2004 film adaptation, I, Robot. Interesting: Robot series (Asimo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/01/15 11:24 PM |
| 1 | Does anyone know about the prospects of a male pill?Reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance: Reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance (RISUG), formerly referred to as the synthetic polymer styrene maleic anhydride (SMA), is the development name of a male contraceptive developed at IIT Kharagpur in India by Dr. Sujoy K Guha. Phase III clinical trials are underway in India, slowed by insufficient volunteers. It has been patented in India, China, Bangladesh, and the United States. A method based on RISUG, Vasalgel, is currently under deve… | /r/MensRights | 27/01/15 09:49 PM |
| 1 | 31-year-old woman who claims she was a teenage sex slave and forced to service high-profile clients such as attorney Alan Dershowitz has now repeated those claims under oath.Nayirah (testimony): The Nayirah testimony was a testimony given before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a woman who provided only her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and the American president in their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War. In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud Al-Sa… | /r/MensRights | 27/01/15 10:51 AM |
| 1 | With the male birth control pill almost upon us, how will this change the sexual marketplace?Reproductive coercion: Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction) are threats or acts of violence against a partner's reproductive health or reproductive decision-making and is a collection of behaviors intended to pressure or coerce a partner into becoming a parent or ending a pregnancy. Reproductive coercion is a form of domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence, where behavior concerning reproductive health is used to maintain power, control, and domination with… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/01/15 09:27 AM |
| 2 | Wikipedia bans a handful of Feminist editors. Apparently the end of the world.Gamergate controversy: The Gamergate controversy, centering on a debate about sexism in video game culture, came to public attention in August 2014 as a result of sexist and misogynistic attacks targeting a number of women in the video game industry, including game developers Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu, cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, and others. These attacks, which were often performed under the #gamergate hashtag or by people connected to it, included online harassment and death threats and w… | /r/MensRights | 27/01/15 05:42 AM |
| 3 | Straight BP men and straight BP women, would you engage in romantic and/or sexual relations with a MtF transgender and a FtM transgender (respectively)? Gay BP men and gay BP women, would you engage in relations with a gay FtM transgender and a gay MtF transgender?Employment Non-Discrimination Act: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is legislation proposed in the United States Congress that would prohibit discrimination in hiring and employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by employers with at least 15 employees. ENDA has been introduced in every Congress since 1994 except the 109th. Similar legislation has been introduced without passage since 1974. The bill gained its best chance at passing after the Democratic Party g… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/01/15 08:50 PM |
| 2 | Man going to jail for refusing to be a cuckold slaveBradley Amendment: In United States law, the Bradley Amendment (1986, Public law 99-509, 42 U.S.C. § 666(a)(9)(c), Bill Bradley) requires state courts to prohibit retroactive reduction of child support obligations. Specifically, it: automatically triggers a non-expiring lien whenever child support becomes past-due. overrides any state's statute of limitations. disallows any judicial discretion, even from bankruptcy judges. requires that the payment amounts be maintained without regard for the ph… | /r/MensRights | 26/01/15 08:47 PM |
| 1 | Man going to jail for refusing to be a cuckold slaveIn vitro fertilisation: In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman's ovulatory process, removing ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from the woman's ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a fluid medium in a laboratory. The fertilised egg (zygote) is cultured for 2–6 days in a growth medium and is then implanted in the same or another woman's uterus, with the intenti… | /r/MensRights | 26/01/15 04:59 PM |
| 2 | Got slammed in a thread when I said take the red pill.Confirmation bias: Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, or recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret am… | /r/MGTOW | 26/01/15 03:07 PM |
| 1 | Jezebel makes fun of runway model's dick size, apologizes to readers in advance for showing such a disgusting, pathetic thingYellow journalism: Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion. Image i - Nasty little printer's devils spew fo… | /r/MensRights | 26/01/15 11:58 AM |
| 2 | Replacing "men" with "Jews" in feminist Anita Sarkeesian's tweets is quite revealing...Intersectionality: Intersectionality (or intersectionalism) is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. An example is black feminism, which argues that the experience of being a black female cannot be understood in terms of being black, and of being female, considered independently, but must include the interactions, which frequently reinforce each other. This feminist sociological theory was first named by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, though… | /r/MensRights | 26/01/15 03:37 AM |
| 2 | Is Feminism going to decline in the following decades? Will Redpill ideas start burgeoning?Education in Iran: Education in Iran is highly centralized and is divided into K-12 education and higher education. K-12 education is supervised by the Ministry of Education and higher education is under supervision of Ministry of Science and Technology. 85% of the Iranian adult population is now literate, well ahead of the regional average of 62%. This rate increases to 97% among young adults (aged between 15 and 24) without any gender discrepancy. By 2007, Iran had a student to workforce popul… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/01/15 01:55 AM |
| 3 | #653: “Help, I’m dating a Men’s Rights Activist”No true Scotsman: No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"). Interesti… | /r/MensRights | 25/01/15 06:52 PM |
| 1 | BP: You disappoint. Where is the cutesy terminology?Political correctness: Political correctness or political correctitude (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is an attitude or policy of being careful not to offend or upset any group of people in society who are believed to have a disadvantage. Mainstream usage of the term began in the 1990s by right-wing politicians who used the term as a shorthand way of conveying their concerns about the left in academia and in culture. A 1991 article used the term to ref… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/01/15 05:24 PM |
| 1 | Just saw this in /r/funny. Some girl got this handout in her sexual assult class. I really wish this was a joke.Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is a literary adage which stipulates that without a clear indicator of an author's intended sarcasm it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 25/01/15 05:09 PM |
| 1 | Male Voices on YouTube Under Attack.Frank Wu (artist): Frank Wu is an American science fiction and fantasy artist living in Arlington, Massachusetts. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009; he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize (the Gold Award) in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2000. In 2008 he was nominated for a fourth Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist, but declined the nomination. Nominated again in 2009, he accepted and won his fourth Hugo, but used hi… | /r/MensRights | 25/01/15 05:08 PM |
| 1 | Male Voices on YouTube Under Attack.Section 1. Career of article Brianna Wu: Brianna Wu was raised in Mississippi by adoptive parents. She was raised in an entrepreneurial environment, her father a retired US Navy doctor who opened his own clinic, her mother running a series of small businesses. In 2003 she enrolled at the University of Mississippi, studying journalism and political science. At the age of 19, she formed a small animation studio to create an animated pilot episode. The venture was unsuccessful, resulting in her wit… | /r/MensRights | 25/01/15 03:11 PM |
| 3 | #653: “Help, I’m dating a Men’s Rights Activist”Equity and gender feminism: Equity feminism and gender feminism are two kinds of feminism, first defined by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism?. She describes equity feminism as having the ideological objective of equal legal rights for men and women and gender feminism as having the objective of counteracting gender-based discrimination and patriarchic social structures in everyday social and cultural practice. Sommers is herself a strong advocate of what she cal… | /r/MensRights | 25/01/15 12:02 PM |
| 1 | This concept is about eqaulity for all, lets put the guns down and hop of the stagnent femenist and anti femenist or MRA and anti MRA mind set and start progressing toward something healthy for both men and women.Egalitarianism: Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism or equalism —is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people. Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English. It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as… | /r/MensRights | 25/01/15 08:56 AM |
| 1 | University Womens Center Claims "Manspreading" Is Caused By Male InsecurityNarcissistic personality disorder: Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a Cluster B personality disorder in which a person is excessively preoccupied with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity, mentally unable to see the destructive damage they are causing to themselves and to others in the process. It is estimated that this condition affects one percent of the population, with rates greater for men. First formulated in 1968, NPD was historically called megalomania, and is a form o… | /r/MensRights | 24/01/15 01:55 PM |
| 1 | Can I ask you guys a question (or a few) Let's hear your say on these matters.Retirement age: This article lists the statutory retirement age in different countries. In some contexts, the retirement age is the age at which a person is expected or required to cease work and is usually the age at which they may be entitled to receive superannuation or other government benefits. Note: The average of retirement age in the 34 countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is males 65 years and females 63.5 years, but the tendency all over the wo… | /r/MensRights | 24/01/15 01:44 PM |
| 1 | How is this okay esurance?Civil Rights Act of 1875: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335–337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. The Supreme Court decided the act was unconstitutional in 1883. Image i Interesting: Civil Rights Cases | All-white jury | Thomas F. Bayard Parent commenter can togg… | /r/MensRights | 24/01/15 02:39 AM |
| 2 | How is this okay esurance?Separate but equal: Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified and permitted racial segregation, as not being in breach of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens, and other federal civil rights laws. Under the doctrine, government was allowed to require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation… | /r/MensRights | 24/01/15 02:00 AM |
| 1 | Poll: How many in TRP really think women are inferior?Fisher's principle: Fisher's principle is an evolutionary model that explains why the sex ratio of most sexual species is approximately 1:1. It was famously outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (but incorrectly attributed to Fisher as original ). Nevertheless, A. W. F. Edwards has remarked that it is "probably the most celebrated argument in evolutionary biology". Specifically, Fisher couched his argument in terms of parental expenditure, and predi… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/01/15 01:33 AM |
| 1 | Poll: How many in TRP really think women are inferior?Sex differences in crime: Sex differences in crime are differences between men and women as the perpetrators and/or victims of crime. Such studies may belong to fields such as criminology or sociobiology (which attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship between biological factors, in this case sex, and human behaviors), etc. Despite the difficulty to interpret them, crime statistics may provide a way to investigate such a relationship, whose possible existence would be interesting from a gend… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/01/15 08:34 PM |
| 1 | Poll: How many in TRP really think women are inferior?Section 5. Criticism of article Encephalization quotient: Recent research indicates that whole brain size is a better measure of cognitive abilities than EQ for primates at least. The relationship between brain-to-body mass ratio and complexity are not alone in influencing intelligence. Other factors, such as the recent evolution of the cerebral cortex and different degrees of brain folding, which increases the surface area (and volume) of the cortex, is positively correlated to intelligence in … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/01/15 07:39 PM |
| 1 | Men are shit. AMALT. Why am I wrong?Sex differences in crime: Sex differences in crime are differences between men and women as the perpetrators and/or victims of crime. Such studies may belong to fields such as criminology or sociobiology (which attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship between biological factors, in this case sex, and human behaviors), etc. Despite the difficulty to interpret them, crime statistics may provide a way to investigate such a relationship, whose possible existence would be interesting from a gend… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/01/15 04:00 PM |
| 6 | Rapes and Beats backpacker with her boyfriend for weeks, goes free with minimal charges after saying that is all the boyfriend's fault because she was also a 'victim' 'under his influence'Karla Homolka: Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale and Leanne Bordelais (born 4 May 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a convicted Canadian serial killer who helped her husband rape and murder at least three women. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as the rape and death of her sister Tammy. Homol… | /r/PussyPass | 23/01/15 01:31 PM |
| 1 | I'm so glad that TRP wasn't a thing I knew about when I was like 17.Pareto principle: The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population; Pareto developed the principle by observing that 20% of the pea pods in his g… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/01/15 11:06 AM |
| 2 | Investigator: The "third of men would rape if no consequences" statistic was generated by asking students to respond with a number out of 100 and counted a score greater than 10 out of 100 as "yes"Science wars: The science wars were a series of intellectual exchanges, between scientific realists and postmodernist critics, about the nature of scientific theory and intellectual inquiry. They took place principally in the United States in the 1990s in the academic and mainstream press. The scientific realists accused the postmodernists of having effectively rejected scientific objectivity, the scientific method, and scientific knowledge. Scientific realists (such as Norman Levitt, Paul R. Gr… | /r/MensRights | 23/01/15 02:11 AM |
| 2 | How can you claim that women are mentally children and also that it's wrong for women to get lighter sentences?Cognitive dissonance: In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. When inconsistency (dissonance) is experienced, individuals tend to become psychologically uncomfortabl… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/01/15 08:46 PM |
| 1 | Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - who hates due process rights for college men - invited a mattress-carrying rape accuser/activist to the State of the Union. The male student was cleared by Columbia University of rape yet was still driven out of school due to the accusation. He's now a 'social outcast'.Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 22/01/15 11:50 AM |
| 2 | Wife tries killing husband using sh*t: Arizona woman injects poop into retired cop husband’s IVMünchausen syndrome by proxy: Münchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP or MBP) is a behaviour pattern in which a caregiver fabricates, exaggerates, or induces health problems in those who are in their care. With deception at its core, this behaviour is an elusive, potentially lethal, and frequently misunderstood form of child abuse or medical neglect that has been difficult to define, detect, and confirm. MSbP has also spawned much heated controversy within the legal and social services communities. I… | /r/PussyPass | 22/01/15 08:29 AM |
| 1 | Girlfriend gets in an anger cycle. Easy going and then argues about a perception that isn't there. Apologizes, appeases... and then, blows the f**k up again.Karpman drama triangle: The drama triangle is a psychological and social model of human interaction in transactional analysis (TA) first described by Stephen Karpman, M.D., in his 1968 article "Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis". The drama triangle model is used in psychology and psychotherapy. Image i - Classic drama triangle [1] Interesting: Counterdependency | Victim playing | David Emerald Womeldorff Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or l… | /r/askTRP | 20/01/15 11:20 PM |
| 1 | University of Virginia legal costs mount after discredited rape story: The costs to the University of Virginia after a discredited report by Rolling Stone magazine of a fraternity gang rape are mounting, with lawyers' contracts totaling more than $500,000, a newspaper reported on Sunday.Sabrina Erdely: Sabrina Rubin Erdely is an American magazine reporter. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Erdely has written about rape and bullying. Currently a freelance journalist, her work has appeared in GQ, Self, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, Glamour, Men's Health and Philadelphia. Erdely's Rolling Stone story "A Rape on Campus" was named by Columbia Journalism Review as "the Worst Journalism of 2014" and as "Error of the Year" by the Poynter Institute. Image i Interesting: Roll… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/15 04:41 PM |
| 0 | All women are like that: "Women, on the other hand tended not to differ in personality traits across regions."Section 2. Current research on general intelligence of article Sex differences in intelligence: According to the 1994 report "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" by the American Psychological Association, "Most standard tests of intelligence have been constructed so that there are no overall score differences between females and males." Differences have been found, however, in specific areas such as mathematics and verbal measures. When standardized IQ tests were first developed in the early 20th… | /r/MGTOW | 20/01/15 01:12 PM |
| 1 | When did you last beat your wife?Joan Ruddock: Dame Joan Ruddock, DBE, MP (née Joan Mary Anthony; born 28 December 1943, in Pontypool, Torfaen) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford since 1987. Ruddock was Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change until 11 May 2010. She is standing down at the next election. Ruddock was educated at Pontypool Girls grammar school and at Imperial College London. Prior to her election to Parliament, s… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/15 10:26 AM |
| 3 | High school social worker trainee charged because she was having sex with student.In loco parentis: The term in loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent" refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. Originally derived from English common law, it is applied in two separate areas of the law. First, it allows institutions such as colleges and schools to act in the best interests of the students as they see fit, although not allowing what would be considered violations of the students' … | /r/PussyPass | 19/01/15 08:11 PM |
| 2 | Have you seen Hjernevask?Stanford prison experiment: The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14–20, 1971, by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. It was funded by the US Office of Naval Research and was of interest to both the US Navy and Marine Corps as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners. Twenty-four ma… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/01/15 03:39 AM |
| 1 | What do you think of Islam's treatment of women and masculinity?Section 10. Rights and obligations of spouses of article Marriage in Islam: According to Islam, both men and woman have rights over each other when they enter into a marriage contract with the husband serving as protector and supporter of the family most of the time, from his means.[Quran 4:34] This guardianship has two aspects for both partners: The husband is financially responsible for the welfare and maintenance of his wife or wives and any children they produce, to include at a minimum, pro… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/01/15 05:22 PM |
| 1 | Maybe, just maybe, a man has a higher probability of being born with an astronomical IQ.History of the race and intelligence controversy: The history of the race and intelligence controversy concerns the historical development of a debate, concerning possible explanations of group differences encountered in the study of race and intelligence. Since the beginning of IQ testing around the time of World War I there have been observed differences between average scores of different population groups, but there has been no agreement about whether this is mainly due to environmental and … | /r/MensRights | 18/01/15 05:19 PM |
| 1 | Feminist vs Truth (watch the denial and victim complex )Fallacy of division: A fallacy of division occurs when one reasons logically that something true for the whole must also be true of all or some of its parts. An example: A Boeing 747 can fly unaided across the ocean. A Boeing 747 has jet engines. Therefore, one of its jet engines can fly unaided across the ocean. The converse of this fallacy is called fallacy of composition, which arises when one fallaciously attributes a property of some part of a thing to the thing as a whole. Both fallacies w… | /r/MensRights | 18/01/15 03:52 PM |
| 0 | Feminist vs Truth (watch the denial and victim complex )Fallacy of composition: The fallacy of composition arises when one implies that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part). For example: "This fragment of metal cannot be fractured with a hammer, therefore the machine of which it is a part cannot be fractured with a hammer." This is clearly fallacious, because many machines can be broken apart, without any of those parts being able to be fractured. This fallacy is often c… | /r/MensRights | 18/01/15 03:51 PM |
| 1 | Bill Cosby wasn’t in Los Angeles When Chloe Goins Accuses Him of Abusing herMalvertising: Malvertising (from "malicious advertising") is the use of online advertising to spread malware. Malvertising involves injecting malicious or malware laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and webpages. Online advertisements provide a solid platform for spreading malware because significant effort is put into them in order to attract users and sell or advertise the product. Because advertising content can be inserted into high-profile and reputable websites… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 18/01/15 08:57 AM |
| 1 | What do you think of Islam's treatment of women and masculinity?Muslim female political leaders: Modern developments in the twentieth century brought more Muslim women into the political sphere. Movements for Muslim women to seek roles in national leadership have increased rapidly. Influxes of western ideals have created more opportunities for women in education, further encouraging their involvement in politics. Some of the most prominent Muslim female leaders are former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto (served 1988-1990 and 1993-1996), Indonesian … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/01/15 10:35 PM |
| 103 | Feminist says DNA paternity tests are "anti-feminist application of science," believes men refusing to raise children they didn't father is immoral.Section 13. France of article Parental testing: Any paternity testing without a court order is banned, due to the official desire to "preserve the peace" within French families, with the French government citing psychologists who state that fatherhood is determined by society, rather than biology. French men often circumvent these laws by sending samples of DNA to foreign laboratories, but risk prosecution if caught. The maximum penalty for carrying out secret paternity testing is one year in pr… | /r/MensRights | 17/01/15 04:25 PM |
| 1 | Update on bitching wife who wanted to go on the lake (video)Borderline personality disorder: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, emotional intensity disorder, or borderline type in the ICD-10) is a cluster-B personality disorder, the essential feature of which is a pattern of marked impulsivity and instability of affects, interpersonal relationships and self image. The pattern is present by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations and contexts. Other symptoms usually include intense fe… | /r/MGTOW | 17/01/15 03:51 PM |
| 1 | Women's College Cancels 'Vagina Monologues' Because It Excludes Women Without VaginasOuroboros: The Ouroboros or Uroboros (/jʊərɵˈbɒrəs/; /ɔːˈrɒbɔrəs/, from the Greek οὐροβόρος ὄφις tail-devouring snake) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The Ouroboros often symbolizes self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things such as the phoenix which operate in cycles that begin anew as soon as they end. It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related … | /r/MensRights | 17/01/15 12:44 PM |
| 2 | Obviously this man committed suicide to get revenge, not that he was depressed and needed help.Sati (practice): Sati (Devanagari: सती, the feminine of sat "true"; also spelled suttee) [(https://en.wikipedia.org//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice\)#endnote_spelling) refers to a funeral ritual within some Asian communities in which a recently widowed woman commits suicide by fire, typically on the husband's funeral pyre. Mention of the practice can be dated back to the 4th century BCE, while evidence of practice by wives of dead kings only appears beginning between the 5th - 9th centurie… | /r/MensRights | 17/01/15 02:20 AM |
| 1 | Local university wants to make a rule that women get to speak first in classes...Uh, what?Progressive stack: A progressive stack is a technique designed to ensure that people from marginalized groups get a chance to speak. It is sometimes an introduction to, or stepping stone to, consensus decision-making in which simple majorities have less power. The theory behind the progressive stack is to counteract the experience that people who are part of the majority or dominant culture are generally encouraged to express themselves, while people from minority or non-dominant groups are most… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/15 08:56 PM |
| 1 | Maybe, just maybe, a man has a higher probability of being born with an astronomical IQ.Section 29. Group differences of article Intelligence quotient: Among the most controversial issues related to the study of intelligence is the observation that intelligence measures such as IQ scores vary between ethnic and racial groups and sexes. While there is little scholarly debate about the existence of some of these differences, their causes remain highly controversial both within academia and in the public sphere. Most IQ tests are constructed so that there are no overall score differen… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/15 07:55 PM |
| 1 | Feminist laws benefit big tech companies while ruining small companies?Overwhelming exception: An overwhelming exception is an informal fallacy of generalization. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications which eliminate so many cases that what remains is much less impressive than the initial statement might have led one to believe. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Accident</sup> <sup>(fallacy) <sup>|</sup> <sup>Faulty</sup> <sup>generalization <sup>|</sup> <sup>List</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>fallacies</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Ind… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/01/15 07:53 PM |
| 12 | Local university wants to make a rule that women get to speak first in classes...Uh, what?Progressive stack: A progressive stack is a technique designed to ensure that people from marginalized groups get a chance to speak. It is sometimes an introduction to, or stepping stone to, consensus decision-making in which simple majorities have less power. The theory behind the progressive stack is to counteract the experience that people who are part of the majority or dominant culture are generally encouraged to express themselves, while people from minority or non-dominant groups are most… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/15 04:50 PM |
| 1 | Pretty balanced views but I do somewhat agree that men are (naturally) the gatekeepers to commitmentToast sandwich: A toast sandwich is a sandwich made by putting a thin slice of toast between two thin slices of bread with a layer of butter, and adding salt and pepper to taste. Its origins can be traced to the Victorian years. A recipe for making it is included in the 1861 Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton. Image i Interesting: Sandwich toaster | Cheese sandwich | Panini (sandwich) | Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comme… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/01/15 08:07 AM |
| 1 | [Study] Men who treat women the same as they treat other men, without benevolent sexism/female privilege, are seen as overwhelmingly sexist by both men and women.Chivalry: Chivalry, or the chivalric code, is a code of conduct associated with the medieval institution of knighthood which developed between 1170 and 1220. According to the British Medieval historian David Crouch, the historical debate on chivalry is an ancient one. The late medieval code of chivalry had arisen from the idealisation of the early medieval synthesis of Germanic and Roman martial traditions —involving military bravery, individual training, and service to others—especially in Fran… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/15 03:17 PM |
| 8 | 35yo Female Michigan Teacher gets 8-25 Years for Sex with 15yo StudentCognitive dissonance: In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. When inconsistency (dissonance) is experienced, individuals tend to become psychologically uncomfortabl… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/01/15 01:10 PM |
| 1 | Evolution and Natural SelectionSection 12. Sexual dimorphism of article Human evolution: The reduced degree of sexual dimorphism is visible primarily in the reduction of the male canine tooth relative to other ape species (except gibbons) and reduced brow ridges and general robustness of males. Another important physiological change related to sexuality in humans was the evolution of hidden estrus. Humans and bonobos are the only apes in which the female is fertile year round and in which no special signals of fertility are p… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/01/15 04:37 AM |
| 1 | ANOTHER teacher who had sex with a student gets rearrestedStatutory rape: In some common law jurisdictions, statutory rape is sexual activity in which at least one person is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior. Although it usually refers to adults engaging in sex with minors under the age of consent, it is a generic term, and very few jurisdictions use the actual term statutory rape in the language of statutes. Different jurisdictions use many different statutory terms for the crime, such as sexual assault (SA), rape of a child (R… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/01/15 12:22 AM |
| 1 | Question for both: what do you think of women who didn't ride the carousel in college and their 20's and married later? Do you think they wasted their youth? Should have they gained more "life experieHelen Fisher (anthropologist): Helen E. Fisher (born May 31, 1945) is an American anthropologist and human behavior researcher. She is a professor at Rutgers University and has studied romantic interpersonal attraction for over 30 years. Prior to Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Fisher earned a BA in Anthropology and Psychology from New York University in 1968; an MA in Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, L… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/01/15 12:08 AM |
| 1 | Another Example Of A "Caring" WifeSection 13. Personality traits of article Sex differences in psychology: Cross-cultural research has shown gender differences on the domains and facets of the Big Five personality traits. For example, women consistently report higher Neuroticism, Agreeableness, warmth (an extraversion facet) and openness to feelings, and men often report higher assertiveness (a facet of extraversion) and openness to ideas as assessed by the NEO-PI-R. Gender differences in personality traits are largest in prospe… | /r/MGTOW | 14/01/15 03:04 PM |
| 1 | Conversation with my single 32 year old female friendLogistic function: A logistic function or logistic curve is a common "S" shape (sigmoid curve), with equation: where e is the natural logarithm base (also known as Euler's number) and x0, L, and k are constants. For values of x in the range of real numbers from −∞ to +∞, the S-curve shown on the right is obtained (with the graph of f approaching L as x approaches +∞ and approaching zero as x approaches −∞). Image i - Standard logistic sigmoid function Interesting: Generalised logistic function |… | /r/askTRP | 14/01/15 02:29 PM |
| 1 | gray hair age 25?Fabrizio Ravanelli: Fabrizio Ravanelli (Italian pronunciation: [faˈbrittsjo ravaˈnɛlli]; born 11 December 1968) is an Italian football manager and former international footballer, who was until November 2, 2013 the manager of French Ligue 1 club AC Ajaccio. Ravanelli started and ended his playing career at hometown club Perugia Calcio. Other notable career stops were Middlesbrough, Juventus and Marseille. He won five titles with Juventus, including a Serie A championship in 1995 and a Champions … | /r/askTRP | 14/01/15 01:07 PM |
| 1 | Ray Barry on ‘Do children need fathers?’ (BBC TV ‘The Big Questions’)Beatrix Campbell: Mary Lorimer Beatrix Campbell, OBE (born 3 February 1947 ), née Barnes, is an English writer and activist who has written for a number of publications since the early 1970s. Her books include Wigan Pier Revisited (1984), Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places (1993) and Diana, Princess of Wales: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy (1998). She has also made films, including Listen to the Children (1990), a documentary about child abuse. Interesting: Beatrice Campbell | Hampstead… | /r/MensRights | 13/01/15 07:48 PM |
| 2 | does every red piller believe the world/culture is against them?Ad hominem: An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person" ), short for argumentum ad hominem, means responding to arguments by attacking a person's character, rather than to the content of their arguments. When used inappropriately, it is a fallacy in which a claim or argument is dismissed on the basis of some irrelevant fact or supposition about the author or the person being criticized. Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/15 06:30 PM |
| 1 | top five bands/movies/tv-shows?The Holy Mountain (1973 film): La montaña sagrada (The Holy Mountain, reissued as The Sacred Mountain) is a 1973 Mexican-American surreal fantasy film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, who also participated as an actor, composer, set designer and costume designer on the film. The film was produced by Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO Music and Records, after Jodorowsky scored an underground phenomenon with El Topo and the acclaim of both John Lennon and George Harrison (Lennon and Yoko Ono pu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/15 03:53 PM |
| 1 | Why do women prefer to date men of their own race?Interracial marriage in the United States: Interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, with many states choosing to legalize interracial marriage at earlier dates. Multiracial Americans numbered 9.0 million in 2010, or 2.9% of the total population, but 5.6% of the population under age 18. Image i - U.S States, by the date of repeal of anti-miscegenation laws: No laws … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/15 03:49 PM |
| 1 | Can men give advice to women on how to attract a high-quality man, or does the "fisherman" analogy work both ways?Fertility: Fertility is the natural capability to produce offspring. As a measure, fertility rate is the number of offspring born per mating pair, individual or population. Fertility differs from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilization and carrying a pregnancy to term) [citation needed]. A lack of fertility is infertility while a lack of fecundity would be called sterility. Human fertility depends on factors of nutrition, sexu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/15 05:24 AM |
| 1 | "Men Aren’t Victims (Because Women Say So)" (Dec 29 article). Chris Good discusses his experience of being a domestic violence victim and his frustration that feminism has tended to ignore male victims.Topfreedom in Canada: Topfreedom in Canada has largely been an attempt to combat the interpretation of indecency laws that considered a woman's breasts to be indecent, and therefore their exhibition in public an offence. In British Columbia, it is a historical issue dating back to the 1930s and the public protests against materialistic lifestyle held by the radical religious sect of the Freedomites, whose pacifist beliefs led to their exodus from Russia to Canada at the end of the 19th century. … | /r/MensRights | 13/01/15 12:25 AM |
| 2 | Female coworker entered the stall three times while I was in it. I reported it and they asked "how is this sexual harassment?"Sexual harassment: Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In most modern legal contexts, sexual harassment is illegal. As defined by the US EEOC, "It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex." Harassment can include "sexual harassment" or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual n… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/15 11:09 PM |
| 1 | Why is The Red Pill, an ideology that not only strictly polices men's gender roles, but also discounts a majority of men as lesser "betas", so prevalent on here?Intersex: Intersex, in humans and other animals, is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female. Such variation may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female. Intersex infants and children, such as those with ambiguous outer genitalia, may be surgically and/or hormonally altered to fit into a perceived more… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/15 10:14 PM |
| 1 | ""Circumcision is OK" say women and men"Middle East Media Research Institute: The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is a not for profit press monitoring organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. MEMRI publishes and distributes free English language translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, and Turkish media reports. The institute was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born American political scientist. MEMRI states that its goal is … | /r/MensRights | 12/01/15 08:29 PM |
| 1 | What is fun or enjoyable about being stoic in interactions with women?Stoicism: Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection", would not suffer such emotions. Stoics were concerned with the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature… | /r/askTRP | 12/01/15 02:21 PM |
| 1 | On re-notation: How changing a name doesn't change a thingLinguistic relativity: The principle of linguistic relativity holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view, or otherwise influences their cognitive processes. Popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, the principle is often defined to include two versions. The strong version says that language determines thought, and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/15 01:43 PM |
| 1 | Redpill relationships and online gaming.German Revolution of 1918–19: The German Revolution, or November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution) was the politically driven civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War, which resulted in the replacement of Germany's imperial government with a republic. The revolutionary period lasted from November 1918 until the establishment in August 1919 of a republic (which later became known as the Weimar Republic). The roots of the revolution lay in the German Empire's fat… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/01/15 10:11 AM |
| 2 | So I'm writing an essay for school, and my teacher is insane.Loving v. Virginia: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people class… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/15 04:21 AM |
| 1 | What to do after being cheated on?The Scorpion and the Frog: The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable that seems to have first emerged in 1954. On account of its dark morality, there have been many popular references since then in popular culture, including notable films, television shows, and books. Image i - An 1847 illustration of "The Scorpion and the Turtle" from the Persian Kalilah and Dimna Interesting: The Scorpion and the Toad | The Devil's Carnival | The Frog and the Mouse Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete… | /r/askTRP | 11/01/15 07:59 PM |
| 1 | If make up and dressing up is something women do for themselves or other women...Ad hominem: An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person" ), short for argumentum ad hominem, means responding to arguments by attacking a person's character, rather than to the content of their arguments. When used inappropriately, it is a fallacy in which a claim or argument is dismissed on the basis of some irrelevant fact or supposition about the author or the person being criticized. Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/01/15 07:37 PM |
| 1 | The Great RegressionSection 4. Social and economic structure of article Hunter-gatherer: Hunter-gatherers tend to have an egalitarian social ethos, although settled hunter-gatherers (for example, those inhabiting the Northwest Coast of North America) are an exception to this rule. Nearly all African hunter-gatherers are egalitarian, with women roughly as influential and powerful as men. The egalitarianism typical of human hunters and gatherers is never perfect, but is striking when viewed in an evolutionary context… | /r/MGTOW | 11/01/15 08:34 AM |
| 2 | False Rape Accusation Leads To Alaska Man’s Beating DeathSection 1. Origins and usage of article Rape culture: The term 'rape culture' was first coined in the 1970s by second wave feminists, and was applied to contemporary American culture as a whole. During the 1970s, second-wave feminists had begun to engage in consciousness-raising efforts designed to educate the public about the prevalence of rape. Previously, according to Canadian psychology professor Alexandra Rutherford, most Americans assumed that rape, incest, and wife-beating rarely happened… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/15 07:41 AM |
| 4 | Woman shoots man in face after fistfight involving her father. She receives conviction & minimum required sentencing for her crime. Public perceives sentencing as "unprecedented" & "despicable".Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism: Towards the end of his life Adolf Hitler followed a vegetarian diet. It is not clear when he adopted it, since some accounts of his dietary habits prior to the Second World War indicate that he consumed meat as late as 1937. By 1938, Hitler's public image as a vegetarian was already being fostered and from 1942 he self-identified as a vegetarian. Personal accounts from people who knew Hitler and were familiar with his diet indicate that he did not consume meat as … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 11/01/15 02:17 AM |
| 1 | US sodomized boys in front of their mother at Abu Ghraib, and it's apparently on video.Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse: During the war in Iraq that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These violations included physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder. The abuses came to light with reports published in late 2003 by Amnesty International and the Associated Press. The incidents received widespread condemna… | /r/MensRights | 10/01/15 03:02 PM |
| 4 | Woman feels 'depressed' and refuses to have sex with her boyfriend for a month... out of frustration, he gives her a sad look because of his blue balls ... she feels guilty and then consents to sex, but she thinks about it later and begins to believe that she may have just been raped.Poe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Self-parody | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 10/01/15 08:06 AM |
| 1 | Why doesn't someone do an experiment where they ask girls to slap boys? [link goes to original video]Milgram experiment: The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in grea… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/15 09:25 PM |
| 1 | How do you overcome existential depression?Evolutionary approaches to depression: Evolutionary approaches to depression are attempts by evolutionary psychologists to use the theory of evolution to shed light on the problem of mood disorders. Depression has generally been thought of as dysfunction, but it does not increase with age the way organic dysfunction commonly does. Some researchers have surmised that the disorder may have evolutionary roots, in the same way that others suggest evolutionary contributions to schizophrenia, sickle c… | /r/askTRP | 09/01/15 09:15 PM |
| 1 | Question for all Pills: Jealousy and SexualityAscites: Ascites (/əˈsaɪtiːz/ ə-SY-teez, from Greek askites, "baglike") is a gastroenterological term for an accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity. The medical condition is also known as peritoneal cavity fluid, peritoneal fluid excess, hydroperitoneum or more archaically as abdominal dropsy. Although most commonly due to cirrhosis, severe liver disease or metastatic cancer, its presence can portend other significant medical problems, such as Budd–Chiari syndrome. Diagnosis of the cause… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/01/15 04:44 PM |
| 1 | [Question] False accusation over Christmas break for a student at my wife's school, is there anything to be done?Section 6. Charges against adults of article Steubenville High School rape case: The nature of the case led to accusations that coaches and school officials knew about the rape and failed to report it. For example, several texts entered into evidence during the trial implied that Steubenville head coach Reno Saccoccia was trying to cover for the players, which led to nationwide outrage after he received a new contract as the district's administrative services director. In response, shortly after… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/15 04:02 PM |
| 1 | Question for the Mods (of PPD, or any other sub)Hanlon's razor: Hanlon's razor is a saying that recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor). Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. As an eponymous law, it may have been named after Robert J. Hanlon. There are also earlier sayings that convey the same idea. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Razor</sup> <sup>(philosophy) <sup>|</sup> <sup>Good</sup> <sup>faith</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Hitchens's</sup> <sup>razor</sup… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/01/15 12:52 AM |
| 2 | Help me stop a circumcisionReligious male circumcision: Religious male circumcision generally occurs shortly after birth, during childhood or around puberty as part of a rite of passage. Circumcision is most prevalent in the religions of Judaism and Islam, and as such is most common in Muslim countries and Israel. In addition to religious reasons circumcision is widely practiced all over the world for health, hygiene and aesthetic reasons. Circumcision is quite common in some predominantly Christian countries such as the … | /r/MensRights | 08/01/15 11:09 PM |
| 4 | Jessica Valenti wants men restricted to "harassers cars" on the subway. But won't that just create a male space feminists will later want to invade?Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/15 10:53 PM |
| 2 | "His"Singular they: Singular *they_ is the use of they, or its inflected or derivative forms, such as them, their, or themselves, to refer to a single person or an antecedent that is grammatically singular. It typically occurs with an antecedent of indeterminate gender, as in sentences such as: "Everyone returned to their seats." "Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?" "The patient should be told at the outset how much they will be required to pay." "But a journali… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/15 09:05 PM |
| 1 | #MyBodyMyChoice, Say no to the draft.White feather: A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and feminists, in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers. It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship. Image i - A white feather is som… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/15 09:10 AM |
| 1 | Bill Cosby Co-Star Tony Winner Phylicia Rashad Speaks Out for First Time, Defends Her FriendPound Cake speech: The Pound Cake speech was given by Bill Cosby in May 2004 during an NAACP awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. In it, Cosby was highly critical of members of subsets of the black community in the United States. He criticized the use of African American Vernacular English, the prevalence of single-parent families, the emphasis on frivolous and conspicuous consumption at the expense of… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/15 07:10 AM |
| 1 | Catcalling in India: policewoman holds man's hair while females hit himSection 3. Legal redress of article Eve teasing: Although Indian law doesn't use the term 'Eve Teasing', victims earlier usually seek recourse through Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code, which sentences a man found guilty of making a girl or woman the target of obscene gestures, remarks, songs or recitation to a maximum jail sentence of three months. Section 292 of the IPC clearly spells out that showing pornographic or obscene pictures, books or papers to a woman or girl results in a fine of … | /r/MensRights | 08/01/15 12:24 AM |
| 2 | Are women more identical to each other than men are (in AWALT terms, not in looks) because they have two X chromosomes rather than XY?Calico cat: Calico cats are domestic cats with a spotted or parti-colored coat that is predominantly white, with patches of two other colors (often, the two other colors are orange tabby and black). Outside of North America, the pattern is more usually called tortoiseshell-and-white. In the province of Quebec, they are sometimes called chatte d'Espagne (French for '(female) cat of Spain'). Other names include brindle, tricolor cat, mi-ke (Japanese for 'triple fur'), and lapjeskat (Dutch for 'pat… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/15 11:04 PM |
| 1 | Woman pretends to be male combat vet who was miraculously helped with his PTSD by a TwoXer, who related his post-combat mental illnesses to to rape victimsFaith: Faith is defined as confidence or trust in a being, object, living organism, deity, view, or in the doctrines or teachings of a religion, as well as confidence based on some degree of warrant. Faith is also a belief that is not based on proof. The word faith is sometimes used as a synonym for hope, for trust, or for belief. ==== Image from article <sup>i</sup> <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Bahá'í</sup> <sup>Faith <sup>|</sup> <sup>Good</sup> <sup>faith</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>White</sup> <… | /r/MensRights | 07/01/15 09:17 PM |
| 3 | CMV- AWALT is a ridiculous thing to say. Women are a population of over 3 billion people, not a hivemind.“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/15 08:33 PM |
| 1 | Good little boys, not hitting women.Milgram experiment: The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in grea… | /r/MensRights | 07/01/15 02:38 PM |
| 1 | Stay-at-home dad petitions Amazon: Change the name of the Amazon Mom program to Amazon FamilyAmazons: The Amazons (Greek: Ἀμαζόνες, Amazónes, singular Ἀμαζών, Amazōn), also known as Oiorpata in Iranian and Scythian, were believed to have been a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in Anatolia, or sometimes Libya. Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyta, who… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/15 05:51 PM |
| 3 | I am almost steaming out of my ears right now.Citizen's arrest: A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official. In common law jurisdictions, the practice dates back to medieval England and the English common law, in which sheriffs encouraged ordinary citizens to help apprehend law breakers. Despite the practice's name, in most countries, the arresting person is usually designated as a person with arrest powers, who need not be a citizen of the country in which they are acting. For exam… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 06/01/15 06:15 AM |
| 11 | Found this card in the men's bathroom at my local TJ Maxx. They care guys :)Joke: A joke is something spoken, written, or done with humorous intention. Jokes may have many different forms, e.g., a single word or a gesture (considered in a particular context), a question-answer, or a whole short story. The word "joke" has a number of synonyms, including wisecrack, gag, prank, quip, jape and jest. To achieve their end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punch line, i.e., an ending to make it humorous. A practical joke or prank d… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/15 02:59 AM |
| 1 | Ministry of Justice blocks rapist footballer from playing abroadRehabilitation (penology): Rehabilitation is the re-integration into society of a convicted person and the main objective of modern penal policy, to counter habitual offending, also known as criminal recidivism. Alternatives to imprisonment also exist, such as community service, probation orders, and others entailing guidance and aftercare towards the offender. Image i Interesting: Punishment | Rehabilitation Policy Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of… | /r/MensRights | 05/01/15 03:50 PM |
| 5 | Judge Judy shuts down "two tiny women"Section 7. Salary of article Judith Sheindlin: In 2005, Sheindlin's salary was US$15 million per year. Her net worth at the beginning of 2007 was $95 million, and she ranked number 13 on the Forbes magazine top 20 richest women in entertainment. In July 2010 when Sheindlin's contract was renewed, her salary increased to $45 million per year. It was later reported in October 2013 that Sheindlin is the highest paid TV star, earning $47 million per year for Judge Judy, which translates into just ov… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 05/01/15 02:04 PM |
| 1 | Men leading the familyHuman Development Index: The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. It was created by Indian economist Amartya Sen and Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990, and was published by the United Nations Development Programme. The 2010 Human Development Report introduced an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). While the simple HDI remains useful, it stated t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/01/15 09:38 AM |
| 1 | Old-fashioned masculine cuddlingLeblouh: Leblouh (lebluh) or gavage is the practice of force-feeding girls as young as five up to teenagers, in Mauritania, northeast Africa, where obesity was traditionally regarded as desirable. Especially prevalent in rural areas and having its roots in Tuareg tradition, leblouh is practiced to increase chances of marriage in a society where high body volume used to be a sign of wealth. The practice goes back to the 11th century, and has been reported to have made a significant comeback after… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/01/15 07:28 PM |
| 2 | What does PPD make of this? Testosterone administration impairs cognitive empathy in womenDownregulation and upregulation: Downregulation is the process by which a cell decreases the quantity of a cellular component, such as RNA or protein, in response to an external variable. An increase of a cellular component is called upregulation. An example of downregulation is the cellular decrease in the number of receptors to a molecule, such as a hormone or neurotransmitter, which reduces the cell's sensitivity to the molecule. This phenomenon is an example of a locally acting negative feed… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/01/15 05:54 AM |
| 1 | The problems I have with the term "sexual objectification", and the fear-mongering associated with itSexual objectification: "Sex object" redirects here. For other uses, see Sex object (disambiguation) Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person as an instrument of sexual pleasure. Objectification more broadly means treating a person as a commodity or an object, without regard to their personality or dignity. Objectification is most commonly examined at the level of a society, but can also refer to the behavior of individuals. The concept of sexual objectification and, in particular,… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/15 05:46 AM |
| 1 | The problems I have with the term "sexual objectification", and the fear-mongering associated with itObjectification: In social philosophy, objectification means treating a person as a thing. Interesting: Sexual objectification | Egyptian hip hop | Blackeyes (TV series) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 04/01/15 05:39 AM |
| 2 | Controversial Question: Why do women have a harder time leaving emotionally abusive RP men, and leave at the drop of a hat with non-abusive BP men?Stockholm syndrome: Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/15 11:49 PM |
| 2 | Baby shortage imperils Japan's economyDemographic-economic paradox: The demographic-economic paradox is the inverse correlation found between wealth and fertility within and between nations. The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or social stratum, the fewer children are born in any industrialized country. In a 1974 UN population conference in Bucharest, Karan Singh, a former minister of population in India, illustrated this trend by stating "Development is the best contraceptive."… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/15 07:57 PM |
| 3 | The Death Knell of Free Speech on Reddit - Admins are now preventing boycotts coming from specific subreddits. /MR is likely to be targeted next...Advance Publications: Advance Publications, Inc., is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse, Jr. It is named after the Staten Island Advance, the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family, and where the mailing address for Advance Publications is listed on paper (although Advance does not have an official headquarters). As of November 2014, it was ranked as the 44th largest private company in the United States according to Fo… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/15 04:35 PM |
| 2 | Tell me about men's rights.Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/15 02:23 AM |
| 1 | Grey Gardens (1975). What happens when strong womyn realize they don't need stupid men with their gross disgusting horny penises and Go Their Own Way.Grey Gardens: Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer also directed, and Susan Froemke was the associate producer. Although Susan Froemke is often credited as being one of the editors (and was featured for this in Vanity Fair magazine) she did not take any part in the original editing of the film. [citation needed] The film was edited by Ellen Hovde (editor of Gimme Shelter and Salesman) and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the eve… | /r/MGTOW | 03/01/15 01:20 AM |
| 1 | OCD + TRP = I'm a basket casePrimarily Obsessional OCD: "POCD" redirects here. For the other meaning of this acronym, see Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction. Primarily Obsessional Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (also commonly called Purely Obsessional OCD, Pure-O, OCD without overt compulsions or with covert compulsions) is a lesser-known form or manifestation of OCD. For people with primarily obsessional OCD, there are fewer observable compulsions, compared to those commonly seen with the typical form of OCD (checking, cou… | /r/askTRP | 02/01/15 11:18 PM |
| 1 | Discipline without being controlling and using negative reinforcement and ultimatums.Reinforcement: In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus. This strengthening effect may be measured as a higher frequency of behavior (e.g., pulling a lever more frequently), longer duration (e.g., pulling a lever for longer periods of time), greater magnitude (e.g., pulling a lever with greater force), or shorter latency (e.g., pulling a lever more quickly follo… | /r/RedPillParenting | 02/01/15 07:31 PM |
| 1 | Has exposure to the Redpillsphere brainwashed you to unjustifiably think less of female sluts?Royal mistress: A royal mistress is the historical position of a mistress to a monarch or an heir apparent. Some mistresses have had considerable power. These powerful mistresses have been commonly referred to as the "power behind the throne". The prevalence of the institution can be attributed to the fact that royal marriages were until recent times conducted solely on the basis of political and dynastic considerations, leaving little space for the monarch's personal preferences in the choice o… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/15 12:04 PM |
| 0 | #mandictionarySingular they: Singular *they_ is the use of they, or its inflected or derivative forms, such as them, their, or themselves, to refer to a single person or an antecedent that is grammatically singular. It typically occurs with an antecedent of indeterminate gender, as in sentences such as: "Everyone returned to their seats." "Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?" "The patient should be told at the outset how much they will be required to pay." "But a journali… | /r/MensRights | 02/01/15 10:08 AM |
| 1 | Do you members of TRP believe that most of Reddit thinks that TRP is toxic, misogynist and misleading for no reason? Or is there a reasonable, logical and practical explanation for this phenomenon? Are the members of TRP at fault for this? If not who is? And are these generalizations unfair?Women's suffrage in the United States: Women's suffrage in the United States, the legal right of women to vote in that country, was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920. The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/15 05:28 AM |
| 1 | Men leading the familySexual capital: Sexual capital or erotic capital is the social value an individual or group accrues, as a result of their sexual attractiveness. As with other forms of capital, sexual capital is convertible, and may be useful in acquiring other forms of capital, including social capital and economic capital. Interesting: Sexual field | Pompoir | Red-light district | Extramarital sex Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/15 05:18 AM |
| 2 | who pulls the strings of society more, men or women?Behavioral sink: The ethologist John B. Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink" to describe the collapse in behavior which resulted from overcrowding. Over a number of years, Calhoun conducted over-population experiments on rats which culminated in 1962 with the publication of an article in the Scientific American of a study of behavior under conditions of overcrowding. In it, Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink". Calhoun's work became used as an animal model of societal collapse, and his… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/15 03:47 AM |
| 1 | ‘Innate harm’ to tell men they’re not wanted, adjudicator rules, though she ‘doubts sincerity’ of male who was put out by ‘female only’ job adInvisible hand: In economics, the invisible hand is a metaphor used by Adam Smith to describe unintended social benefits resulting from individual actions. The phrase is employed by Smith with respect to income distribution (1759) and production (1776). The exact phrase is used just three times in Smith's writings, but has come to capture his notion that individuals' efforts to pursue their own interest may frequently benefit society more than if their actions were directly intending to benefit … | /r/MensRights | 01/01/15 04:08 PM |
| 2 | During a divorce proceeding, husband files a restraining order against his wife for domestic violence - wife ends up proving the husband was justified - [1:54]Apes: Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid catarrhine primates native to Africa and Southeast Asia and distinguished by a wide degree of freedom at the shoulder joint indicating the influence of brachiation. There are two main branches: the gibbons, or lesser apes; and the hominids or great apes. Lesser apes (Hylobatidae) include four genera and sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon, and the siamang, all native to Asia. They are highly arboreal and bipeda… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 01/01/15 10:28 AM |
| 6 | I am almost steaming out of my ears right now.Castle doctrine: A castle doctrine (also known as a castle law or a defense of habitation law) is a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode (or, in some states, any legally occupied place [e.g., a vehicle or workplace]) as a place in which that person has certain protections and immunities permitting him or her, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend themselves against an intruder, free from legal responsibility/prosecution for the consequence… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 01/01/15 12:54 AM |
| 1 | New to Red Pill...suffering from "Directive 4"The Poison: The Poison is the debut album by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. The album was released on October 3, 2005 through Visible Noise Records in the UK, and on February 14, 2006 in the United States through Trustkill Records. The album included 11 new songs and two previously heard songs, "Cries in Vain", which was previously heard from their self-titled UK EP and from their US EP, Hand of Blood, as well as from "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" was previously included on the same… | /r/askTRP | 31/12/14 10:29 PM |
| 2 | Disturbing Video Shows the Moment a Womans Rape Allegation Falls Apart as the Man She Falsly AccusedRight-to-work law: A "right-to-work" law is a statute in the United States that prohibits union security agreements, or agreements between labor unions and employers, that govern the extent to which an established union can require employees' membership, payment of union dues, or fees as a condition of employment, either before or after hiring. Right-to-work laws do not aim to provide general guarantee of employment to people seeking work, but rather are a government regulation of the contractua… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/14 08:30 PM |
| 1 | Facebook friend flips it around.Common-law marriage: Common-law marriage, also known as __sui juris marriage, informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute__, is an irregular form of marriage that can be legally contracted in an extremely limited number of jurisdictions. The original concept of a common-law marriage is a marriage that is considered valid by both partners, but has not been formally registered with a state or church registry, or a formal religious service. In effect, the act of the couple representing themse… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/14 05:32 PM |
| 3 | Deion Sanders’ ex-wife jailed, loses rights to see kidsSovereign citizen movement: The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American litigants, commentators, tax protesters and financial-scheme promoters. Self-described sovereign citizens take the position that they are answerable only to their particular interpretation of the common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state or municipal levels or that they do not recognize U.S. currency and that they are "free of any legal constraints." They especiall… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 31/12/14 04:14 PM |
| 1 | Kudos to these girls! Female rugby team strip off to raise money for muscle wasting charity which only affects boysLorenzo's Oil: Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 American drama film directed by George Miller. It is based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, two parents in a relentless search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). The film was nominated for two Academy Awards. It was filmed primarily from September 1991 to February 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The film had a limited release in North America on December 30, 1992, with a nationwide release two weeks later on Jan… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/14 07:58 AM |
| 2 | Has there ever been a culture where gender norms regarding dating/mate choosing are flipped?Herbivore men: Herbivore men (草食(系)男子, Sōshoku(-kei) danshi ?) or grasseaters are a social phenomenon in Japan of men who shun marriage or gaining a girlfriend. They are characteristically described as frugal, and interested in personal grooming. Under this categorisation scheme, men and women are either herbivore type (草食系, sōshoku-kei ?) or carnivore type (肉食系, nikushoku-kei ?). As of September 2010, 36% of Japanese men between the ages of 16 and 19 perceived themselves in this way. Additional… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/12/14 07:47 AM |
| 1 | This is the type of insanity we are fighting againstCoercion: Coercion /koʊˈɜrʃən/ is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation or threats or some other form of pressure or force. It involves a set of various types of forceful actions that violate the free will of an individual to induce a desired response, usually having a strict choice or option against a person in such a way a victim cannot escape, for example: a bully demanding lunch money to a student or the student gets beaten. These action… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/14 03:12 AM |
| 1 | Has there ever been a culture where gender norms regarding dating/mate choosing are flipped?Swayamvara: Swayamvara (Sanskrit: स्वयंवर), in ancient India, was a practice of choosing a husband, from among a list of suitors, by a girl of marriageable age. Swayam in Sanskrit means self and vara means bride-groom in this context. In this practice, the girl's father decides to conduct the Swayamvara of the daughter at an auspicious time and venue, and broadcasts the news of this to the outside world. Kings typically used to send messengers to outside lands, whereas commoners arranged to spr… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/12/14 02:42 AM |
| 2 | #WomenAgainstFeminism Creator Removed From Twitter For Quoting Radical FeministsPoe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Christwire | Landover Baptist Church Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 31/12/14 02:11 AM |
| 1 | Parents plead guilty to child abuse due to the neglect of their four boys. Both had a prior child abuse guilty plea as well. Mother sentenced to 90 days in jail plus probation. Father sentenced to five years behind bars.Murder of Nixzmary Brown: Nixzmary Brown (July 18, 1998 – January 11, 2006) was a seven-year-old American abused child and murder victim from the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn section of New York City, New York. Her death impacted the city's Administration for Children's Services and prompted reforms in the system. Interesting: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women | Murder of Nubia Barahona | List of people with surname Brown | Justina Morales Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. … | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 10:35 PM |
| 2 | Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy. Japanese women have complained of soshoku danshi or "herbivore men," so called for their lack of interest in the opposite sex. This is also staJohn B. Calhoun: John B. Calhoun (May 11, 1917 – September 7, 1995) was an American ethologist and behavioral researcher noted for his studies of population density and its effects on behavior. He claimed that the bleak effects of overpopulation on rodents were a grim model for the future of the human race. During his studies, Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink" to describe aberrant behaviors in overcrowded population density situations and “beautiful ones” to describe passive individuals … | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 07:41 PM |
| 1 | A question for the female mra's; who or what got you into the movementDescartes' Error: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neurologist António Damásio, in part a treatment of the mind/body dualism question. Damásio presents the "somatic marker hypothesis", a proposed mechanism by which emotions guide (or bias) behavior and decision-making, and positing that rationality requires emotional input. He argues that René Descartes' "error" was the dualist separation of mind and body, rationality and emotion. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> <… | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 07:38 PM |
| 2 | This is the type of insanity we are fighting againstPhilosophical zombie: A philosophical zombie or p-zombie in the philosophy of mind and perception is a hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. For example, a philosophical zombie could be poked with a sharp object, and not feel any pain sensation, but yet, behave exactly as if it does feel pain (it may say "ouch" and recoil from the stimulus, or tell us that it is in intense pain). The notion of a … | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 05:54 PM |
| 9 | If you want to know what “Rape Culture” really looks like, just pay a visit to Islamic-State-held territory in Iraq and Syria. There is no rape culture at any USA college. It is no coincidence that most of the angry young women making these complaints are childless.Rape Culture (film): Rape Culture is a 1975 film by Cambridge Documentary Films, produced by Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich. It was updated in 1983. In January 1975, Judy Norsigan outlined how the film illustrated "rape culture", through the voices of men and women, including rapists, victims, prisoners, rape crisis workers, and the media. The film featured prisoners of Lorton Reformatory, Virginia, "Prisoners Against Rape Inc" (PAR), a not-for-profit organisation founded by William Full… | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 03:38 PM |
| 3 | What exactly is this perceived 'Rape Culture' some Women talk about?Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal: The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal refers to the existence of widespread child sexual abuse in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, between 1997 and 2013, and its subsequent cover-up. Local investigations into the organised sexual abuse of children in Rotherham began in the 1990s, although some reports were never finalised or made public by the authorities. In 2010, five men of Pakistani heritage were found guilty of a series … | /r/askTRP | 30/12/14 03:29 PM |
| 2 | What exactly is this perceived 'Rape Culture' some Women talk about?Rape culture: Rape culture is a theoretical concept in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality. Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, or refusing to acknowledge the harm of some forms of sexual violence. The notion of rape culture has been used to describe and explain behavior within social groups, including prison rape, and in conflict areas… | /r/askTRP | 30/12/14 03:20 PM |
| 2 | Sen. Claire McCaskill needs to resign: she finds it 'irritating that anybody would be distracted by' the truth about the prevalence of campus rapeMichael Grimm (politician): Michael Gerard Grimm (born February 7, 1970) is the future former United States Representative for New York's 11th congressional district, serving since 2011. Numbered as the 13th District during his first term, the district consists of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. Grimm is a member of the Republican Party and is the only Republican representing a significant portion of New York City. He is a former FBI agent, businessman, attorney, and U.S. Marine, having ser… | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 01:07 PM |
| 1 | Rhetorical Fallacies Graphic - Anyone who debates anything should be familiar with theseArgument from fallacy: Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), fallacy fallacy, fallacist's fallacy, and bad reasons fallacy. Fallacious arguments can arrive at true conclusions, so this is an informal fallacy of relevance. Interesting: Appeal to pity | God of the gaps | List of fallacies | Relativist fallacy Parent commenter can… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/14 10:18 PM |
| 1 | Facebook friend flips it around.Common-law marriage: Common-law marriage, also known as __sui juris marriage, informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute__, is an irregular form of marriage that can be legally contracted in an extremely limited number of jurisdictions. The original concept of a common-law marriage is a marriage that is considered valid by both partners, but has not been formally registered with a state or church registry, or a formal religious service. In effect, the act of the couple representing themse… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/14 08:51 PM |
| 1 | Homeowner Guns Down Intruder Who Said She Was PregnantByron David Smith killings: The Byron David Smith killings occurred on November 22 (Thanksgiving Day), 2012, when Haile Kifer, 18, and her cousin, Nicholas Brady, 17, broke into the home of Byron David Smith, 65, in Little Falls, Minnesota, in the United States. Smith, armed with a Ruger Mini-14, shot the teens separately and minutes apart as they entered the basement where he was, later stating to police he was worried about them being armed. The case sparked debate over the so-called "Castle d… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 29/12/14 07:06 PM |
| 1 | What would you prefer to be true: TRP or TBP? What are the advantages of either worldview?The seven-year itch: The seven-year itch is a psychological term that suggests that happiness in a relationship declines after around year seven of a marriage. The phrase originated as a name for irritating and contagious skin complaints of a long duration. Examples of reference may have included STD herpes outbreaks that are known to significantly decrease in frequency after seven years or mites that live under the skin (scabies) and cause severe itching that is hard to get rid of. Later on in … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/12/14 04:24 PM |
| 2 | Anita sarkisian: sexism against men is impossible.Voting rights in the United States: The issue of voting rights in the United States has been contentious throughout United States history. Eligibility to vote in the United States is relevant at both the federal and state levels. In the absence of a specific federal law or constitutional provision, each state is given considerable discretion to establish qualifications for suffrage and candidacy within its own respective jurisdiction. Originally, the U.S. Constitution did not define who was elig… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/14 04:08 PM |
| 1 | SheTaxi, the women-only cab service is struggling to find enough drivers, especially at night: Men are more likely to take jobs that require work on weekends and eveningsHackney carriage: A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or automobile for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise. In England, the name hackney carriage today refers to a taxicab licensed by the Public Carriage Office in Greater London or by the local authority (non-metropolitan district councils or unitary authorities) in other parts of Great Britain, or by the Department of the Environment in Northern Irela… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/14 09:58 AM |
| 1 | If someone is too drunk to "Consent"....Serfdom: Serfdom is the status of peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. It was a condition of bondage which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century. Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the Lord of the Manor who owned that land, and in return were entitled to protection, justice and the right to exploit certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence. Serfs… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/12/14 06:11 AM |
| 1 | If someone is too drunk to "Consent"....Serfdom in Russia: The origins of serfdom in Russia are traced to Kievan Rus' in the 11th century. Legal documents of the epoch, such as Russkaya Pravda, distinguished several degrees of feudal dependency of peasants, the term for an unfree peasant in the Russian Empire, krepostnoi krestyanin (крепостной крестьянин), is translated as serf. Serfdom became the dominant form of relation between peasants and nobility in the 17th century. Serfdom only existed in central and southern areas of the Russ… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/12/14 06:02 AM |
| 1 | Woman won't let this guy leave, and threatens to call the cops for battery and rape unless he goes back to bedDuluth model: The Duluth Model or Domestic Abuse Intervention Project is a program developed to reduce domestic violence against women. It is named after Duluth, Minnesota, the city where it was developed. The program was largely founded by Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar. As of 2006 [update], the Duluth Model is the most common batterer intervention program used in the United States. It is based in feminist theory positing that "domestic violence is the result of patriarchal ideology in which me… | /r/PussyPass | 29/12/14 05:58 AM |
| 2 | Online dating and getting blown out by low SMV girlsParadox of hedonism: The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, is a concept in ethics that focuses upon pleasure and happiness as strange phenomena that do not adhere to normal principles. The philosopher Henry Sidgwick was first to note in The Methods of Ethics that the paradox of hedonism is that pleasure cannot be acquired directly, it can only be acquired indirectly. Interesting: Lover's paradox | Pleasure | Hedone | Hedonism Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will … | /r/askTRP | 29/12/14 04:53 AM |
| 1 | If someone is too drunk to "Consent"....Slavery on the Barbary Coast: Often overlooked by modern historians is the length and magnitude of white enslavement by Africans that pre-dates the black African transatlantic slave trade. According to a study by Ohio State University history Professor Robert Davis and detailed in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/12/14 01:42 AM |
| 1 | Joe Rogan and Anthony Cumia on 'Yes Means Yes', White Knights and Male FeministsPolitical lesbianism: Political lesbianism is a phenomenon within feminism, primarily Second-wave feminism and radical feminism; it includes, but is not limited to, lesbian separatism. Political lesbianism embraces the theory that sexual orientation is a political and feminist choice, and advocates lesbianism as a positive alternative to heterosexuality for women as part of the struggle against sexism. Interesting: The Feminists | List of ecofeminist authors | Ti-Grace Atkinson | Equity and gend… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/14 09:34 PM |
| 2 | What would you prefer to be true: TRP or TBP? What are the advantages of either worldview?“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/12/14 08:47 PM |
| 1 | Why feminists hate male spacesFascism: Fascism (/fæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Influenced by national syndicalism, fascism originated in Italy during World War I, combining more typically right-wing positions with elements of left-wing politics, in opposition to liberalism, Marxism, and traditional conservatism. Although fascism is often placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum, several academics have said that the desc… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/14 04:09 PM |
| 17 | SheTaxi, the women-only cab service is struggling to find enough drivers, especially at night: Men are more likely to take jobs that require work on weekends and eveningsSection 22. Protected categories of article Employment discrimination: Laws often prohibit discrimination on the basis of Race or color Ethnicity or national origin Sex or gender Pregnancy Religion or creed Political affiliation Language abilities Citizenship Disability or medical condition Age Sexual orientation Gender identity Marital status Interesting: United Kingdom employment equality law | Employment discrimination law in the United States | Employment discrimination law in the European U… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/14 01:36 PM |
| 1 | Teacher Nicole Ryan hires hitman to kill ex husband Supreme Court sets her free husbands responseCameron Todd Willingham: Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted of murdering his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas on December 23, 1991. He was executed in 2004. Willingham's case gained renewed attention in 2009 when an investigative report by David Grann in The New Yorker, drawing upon arson investigation experts and advances in fire science since the 1992 investigation, suggested that the evidence … | /r/MensRights | 28/12/14 04:13 AM |
| 1 | are red pillers addicted to, dependent on, women and/or sex? is red pill a system/support-group to deal with that addiction/dependence?Flow (psychology): In positive psychology, Flow, also known as Zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does. Named by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields, though has existed for thousands of years in other guises, notably… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/12/14 02:04 AM |
| 1 | Am I about to make a huge mistake?Comparison of birth control methods: Comparison of birth control methods: Different types of birth control methods have large differences in effectiveness, actions required of users, and side effects. Different methods require different actions of users. Barrier methods, spermicides, or coitus interruptus must be used at every act of intercourse. The male condom may not be applied until the penis is erect. Barriers such as diaphragms, caps, the contraceptive sponge, and female condoms may be pla… | /r/askTRP | 28/12/14 01:56 AM |
| 1 | How does Blue Pill explain the "Sexodus"?Sex strike: A sex strike, sometimes called a sex boycott, is a strike, a method of non-violent resistance in which one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals. It is a form of temporary sexual abstinence. Sex strikes have been used to protest many issues, from water resources to employment equity. Image i - Ukrainian group Femen calling for a sex strike to protest against sexual exploitation of women. Interesting: The Woman's Prize | Women of Liberia M… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/12/14 12:18 AM |
| 1 | are red pillers addicted to, dependent on, women and/or sex? is red pill a system/support-group to deal with that addiction/dependence?Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belongingness" and "love", "… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/12/14 09:43 PM |
| 3 | CNN claims terrorists are afraid of gender equality because "empowered women would never accept terror." Article describes why women are naturally superior to men.Section 9. Female suicide bombers of article Suicide attack: According to a report issued by intelligence analysts in the U.S. army in 2011, "Although women make up roughly 15% of the suicide bombers within groups which utilize females, they were responsible for 65% of assassinations; 20% of women who committed a suicide attack did so with the purpose of assassinating a specific individual, compared with 4% of male attackers." The report further stated that female suicide bombers often were "gri… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/14 08:17 PM |
| 2 | Teacher Nicole Ryan hires hitman to kill ex husband Supreme Court sets her free husbands responseDear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film conceived and created by Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne's close friend Andrew Bagby was allegedly murdered by Shirley Jane Turner after Bagby ended their tumultuous relationship. Shortly after she was arrested, she announced she was pregnant with Bagby's child, a boy she named Zachary. Kuenne decided to interview numerous relatives, friends, and associates of Andrew Bagby a… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/14 04:48 PM |
| 3 | [Not Trolling] MGM and Worries About Anti-semitismDavid Reimer: David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/14 01:36 AM |
| 1 | The same British Medical Journal that gave us "male idiot theory" also gave us the "fragile male" 14 years ago.April Fools' Day Request for Comments: Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet RFC Editor has published one or more humorous Request for Comments (RFC) documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 called ARPAWOCKY, a parody of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>List</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>April</sup> <sup>Fools'</sup> <sup>Day</sup> <sup>j… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/14 12:27 AM |
| 0 | 10 Of The Craziest Ideas Pushed In The Name Of FeminismUnintended consequences: In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes that are not the ones intended by a purposeful action. The term was popularised in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton. Unintended consequences can be roughly grouped into three types: A positive, unexpected benefit (usually referred to as luck, serendipity or a windfall). A negative, unexpected detriment occurring in additi… | /r/MensRights | 26/12/14 09:32 PM |
| 1 | Blue pillers: what is your religious affiliation?Agnostic theism: Agnostic theism is the philosophical view that encompasses both theism and agnosticism. An agnostic theist believes in the existence of at least one deity, but regards the basis of this proposition as unknown or inherently unknowable. It can also mean that there is one high ruler, but it is unknowable or unknown who or what it is. The agnostic theist may also or alternatively be agnostic regarding the properties of the God or the gods he or she believes in. Image i Interesting: … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/12/14 09:25 PM |
| 2 | Any evidence of a "decline" since women's suffrage?Coming Apart (book): Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 is a 2012 book by political scientist and W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Charles Murray. The book describes what the author sees as the economic divide and moral decline of white Americans that has occurred since 1960. The author focuses on white Americans in order to make it clear that the decline he describes was not being experienced solely by minorities, whom he brings into his argument in the … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/12/14 07:43 PM |
| 2 | "The Creepy Misogynist Movement That's Making Conservatives Even More Sexist" by Mad Mandy Marcotte. Take a wild guess who she's talking about. Come on, i dare ya.Out-group homogeneity: The out-group homogeneity effect is one's perception of out-group members as more similar to one another than are in-group members, e.g. "they are alike; we are diverse". The term "outgroup homogeneity effect", or "relative outgroup homogeneity" has been explicitly contrasted with "outgroup homogeneity" in general, the latter referring to perceived outgroup variability unrelated to perceptions of the ingroup. The out-group homogeneity effect is part of a broader field of r… | /r/MensRights | 26/12/14 02:52 AM |
| 1 | "One HBO Star Dares to Criticize Feminism"Mythology: Mythology can refer either to the collected myths of a group of people—their body of stories which they tell to explain nature, history, and customs —or to the study of such myths. Our culture has debased the function of myth. "The word myth has been debased and cheapened in modern usage; it’s often used to refer to something false, a lie. But this use misses the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information, the way constell… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/14 03:05 PM |
| 2 | "One HBO Star Dares to Criticize Feminism"Woozle effect: The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, or a woozle, occurs when frequent citation of previous publications that lack evidence misleads individuals, groups and the public into thinking or believing there is evidence, and nonfacts become urban myths and factoids. Interesting: Factoid | Self-reference | Circular reasoning Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 24/12/14 10:19 AM |
| 2 | Controversial Question: Why do women have a harder time leaving emotionally abusive RP men, and leave at the drop of a hat with non-abusive BP men?Psychological abuse: Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Such abuse is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such as abusive relationships, bullying, and abuse in the workplace. Interesting: Destabilisation | Prisoner abuse | Intimidation | Thr… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/12/14 07:28 AM |
| 1 | "I'm a woman driver, I didn't pay attention."Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 24/12/14 12:13 AM |
| 2 | Redpill, wow do you check for slut history? For those who LTR only.Virginity test: A virginity test is the practice and process of determining whether a female person is a virgin, i.e., whether she has never engaged in sexual intercourse. The test involves an inspection of a female's hymen, on the assumption that her hymen can only be torn as a result of sexual intercourse. Virginity testing is very controversial, both because of its implications for tested girls and women and because it is viewed as unethical. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Human</sup> <sup>righ… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/12/14 09:34 PM |
| 11 | "You do not automatically trust men around young children. The risk of a mistake is too high."McMartin preschool trial: The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case of the 1980s. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in California, were charged with numerous acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983. Arrests and the pretrial investigation ran from 1984 to 1987, and the trial ran from 1987 to 1990. After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990. When the trial en… | /r/MensRights | 23/12/14 06:31 PM |
| 1 | Having a "miscarriage" gives you the right to ignore rules of the road and be rude to officers.Pennsylvania v. Mimms: Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106 (1977), is a United States Supreme Court criminal law decision holding that a police officer ordering a person out of a car following a traffic stop and conducting a pat-down to check for weapons did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Interesting: List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 434 | Terry stop | 99 Problems | Terry v. Ohio Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 23/12/14 01:44 PM |
| 2 | CMV: Hetero men need women more than hetero women need men.False equivalence: False equivalence is a logical fallacy which describes a situation where there is a logical and apparent equivalence, but when in fact there is none. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. It would be the antonym of the mathematical concept of material equivalence. Interesting: False balance | Fringe theory | Equivocation | Autism's False Prophets Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Ma… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/12/14 01:24 PM |
| 1 | BBC News - Guns removed from 'domestic abusers' - Essex Police checked details of licence holders to see if they had ever been the perpetrator of domestic violence, even if they had not been arrested, charged or found guilty.John Locke: John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704), was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire a… | /r/MensRights | 23/12/14 11:57 AM |
| 1 | NCFM Member Naomi Evans fifth letter to Washington legislators re paternity fraud reform legislation — Women committing Paternity Fraud are guilty of the following crimes…Clothed male, naked female: Clothed male, naked (or nude) female is one-sided female nudity in which one or more women are nude while one or more men are clothed. The scenario is a genre of erotica, which on the internet is sometimes abbreviated to CMNF, and may involve sexual and nonsexual erotic scenarios. Sexual scenarios may involve male domination, female submission, exhibitionism and erotic entertainment. The opposite to CMNF is clothed female, naked male (CFNM). ==== Image <sup>i</sup> - … | /r/MensRights | 23/12/14 03:56 AM |
| 3 | Why PPD, while sometimes diverting, is ultimately useless.Problem of universals: In metaphysics, the problem of universals refers to the question of whether properties exist, and if so, what they are. Properties are qualities or relations that two or more entities have in common. The various kinds of properties, such as qualities and relations are referred to as universals. For instance, one can imagine three cup holders on a table that have in common the quality of being circular or exemplifying circularity, or two daughters that have in common being … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/12/14 03:54 AM |
| 1 | Non straight/cis people of this subreddit, what are issues that specifically involve you?Homo: Homo is the genus of hominids that includes modern humans and species closely related to them. The genus is estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old, possibly having evolved from australopithecine ancestors, with the appearance of Homo habilis It is the only genus in the subtribe Hominina. Several species, including Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus sediba, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus afarensis, have been proposed as the direct ancestor of the Homo lin… | /r/MensRights | 23/12/14 02:45 AM |
| 1 | BP: Should guys take dating advice from Women? Or do you agree with the RP that women give bad dating advice for men? (If you wanna go fishing, don't ask the fish which bait to use, don't get hunting advice from a Deer)Correlation does not imply causation: Correlation does not imply causation is a phrase in science and statistics that emphasizes that a correlation between two variables does not necessarily imply that one causes the other. Many statistical tests calculate correlation between variables. A few go further and calculate the likelihood of a true causal relationship; examples are the Granger causality test and convergent cross mapping. The counter assumption, that correlation proves causation, is con… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/12/14 01:28 AM |
| 1 | Having a "miscarriage" gives you the right to ignore rules of the road and be rude to officers.Man Bear Pig: "ManBearPig" is the sixth episode of the tenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 26, 2006. In the episode, Al Gore visits South Park to warn and frighten everyone about a fictional monster called ManBearPig, which he insists is real. On a trip to the Cave of the Winds, Gore thinks he hears ManBearPig and ends up getting Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny trapped inside the caves. The episode was written and … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 22/12/14 09:34 PM |
| 1 | Where did gender roles come from?Roanoke Colony: The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, established on Roanoke Island, in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. The enterprise was originally financed and organized by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who drowned in 1583 during an aborted attempt to colonize St. John's, Newfoundland. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, later gained his broth… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/12/14 08:43 PM |
| 1 | Bluepillers: are you bothered by the existence of TRP? Why/why not?Section 1. Definitions of article Misogyny: According to sociologist Allan G. Johnson, "misogyny is a cultural attitude of hatred for females because they are female." Johnson argues that: Misogyny .... is a central part of sexist prejudice and ideology and, as such, is an important basis for the oppression of females in male-dominated societies. Misogyny is manifested in many different ways, from jokes to pornography to violence to the self-contempt women may be taught to feel toward their own … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/12/14 09:14 AM |
| 1 | craig ferguson vs feministGeraldine Doyle: Geraldine Hoff Doyle (July 31, 1924 – December 26, 2010) is possibly the real-life model for the World War II era "We Can Do It!" poster, later thought to be an embodiment of the iconic World War II character Rosie the Riveter. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>We</sup> <sup>Can</sup> <sup>Do</sup> <sup>It!</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>J.</sup> <sup>Howard</sup> <sup>Miller</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Inkster,</sup> <sup>Michigan</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>The</sup> <sup>… | /r/MensRights | 21/12/14 07:27 PM |
| 4 | List of airlines operating an "all men are paedophiles" seating policy - Status of MEN IndexAirline sex discrimination policy controversy: Four airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia, have attracted criticism for controversial seating policies which discriminate against adult male passengers on the basis of their sex. The companies refuse(d) to allow unaccompanied children to be seated next to adult males on their flights, leading to criticism that they regard all men as a danger to children. The policies resulted in protests against the airlines and cr… | /r/MensRights | 21/12/14 03:21 AM |
| 1 | In the future, society becomes hyper-feministic and fossil fuels are depleted. Tell me why the future cannot be saved by female engineers?Multiple discovery: The concept of multiple discovery is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors. The concept of multiple discovery opposes a traditional view—the "heroic theory" of invention and discovery. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Heroic</sup> <sup>theory</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>invention</sup> <sup>and</sup> <sup>scientific</sup> <sup>development <sup>|</sup> <sup>Christopher… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/12/14 01:52 AM |
| 3 | Woman Stops in Oncoming Lane To Help Ducks, Man and Daughter on a Motorcycle Collide with the Car Killing them. Woman only gets 90 days in jail, no driving for 10 years and 240 hours of community servLevel of service: Level of service (LOS) is a qualitative measure used to relate the quality of traffic service. LOS is used to analyze highways by categorizing traffic flow and assigning quality levels of traffic based on performance measure like speed, density,etc. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Jozini</sup> <sup>Local</sup> <sup>Municipality <sup>|</sup> <sup>Implied</sup> <sup>level</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>government</sup> <sup>service <sup>|</sup> <sup>Community</sup> <sup>Street</sup> <sup>… | /r/PussyPass | 20/12/14 06:44 AM |
| 1 | Gamergate - why it mattersBig tent: In politics, a big tent or catch-all party is a political party seeking to attract people with diverse viewpoints and thus appeal to more of the electorate. The big tent approach is opposed to single-issue litmus tests and ideological rigidity, conversely advocating multiple ideologies and views within a party. Interesting: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party | Big Tent Revival | Dallas Accord | Ardent Records Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment scor… | /r/MensRights | 20/12/14 12:34 AM |
| 1 | An alternative, testable hypothesis to 80/20, betabux etc.Game theory: Game theory is a study of strategic decision making. Specifically, it is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers". An alternative term suggested "as a more descriptive name for the discipline" is interactive decision theory. Game theory is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic, computer science, and biology. The subject first addressed zero-sum games, such that one person's gai… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/12/14 04:34 PM |
| 2 | Today I realized I'm a overweight Red Piller, maybe notSlow-Carb Diet: The Slow-Carb Diet was popularised in The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss, and first mentioned by him in a 2007 blog post titled "How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise". Ferriss claims to have lost about 25 lbs of fat in six weeks on the diet. The Slow-Carb Diet is based on eating foods with a low glycemic index. It can be summarized as the elimination of starches and anything sweet (including fruit and all artificial sweeteners) and a strong preference for… | /r/askTRP | 19/12/14 04:26 PM |
| 1 | I am having trouble understanding how beta bux and social value work. All pills please give your thoughts.Sociosexual orientation: Sociosexual orientation (or sociosexuality) is the individual difference in the willingness to engage in sexual activity outside of a committed relationship. Individuals with a more restricted sociosexual orientation are less willing to engage in casual sex; they prefer greater love, commitment and emotional closeness before having sex with romantic partners. Individuals who have a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation are more willing to have casual sex and are more… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/12/14 10:43 AM |
| 1 | Woman guilty of sex assault for hiding HIV status. A Manitoba woman who did not tell her sex partner she was HIV positive has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault.Bugchasing: Bugchasing is the practice of pursuing sexual activity with HIV-infected individuals in order to contract HIV. Individuals engaged in this activity are referred to as bugchasers. It is a form of self-harm. Bugchasers seek sexual partners who are HIV-positive for the purpose of having unprotected sex and becoming HIV-positive; giftgivers are HIV-positive individuals who comply with the bugchaser's efforts to become infected with HIV. Bugchasers indicate various reasons for this activi… | /r/MensRights | 19/12/14 01:01 AM |
| 1 | Imagine if a man did this to a girl: "Angry Aunt Who Sliced Off Three-Year-Old Nephew’s Penis Facing Five Years In Jail"Manslaughter: Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human being, in a manner considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the Ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th century B.C.. The definition of manslaughter differs from place of jurisdiction. The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability based on the mens rea, or state of mind, or the circumstances under wh… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/14 11:44 AM |
| 1 | Atticus Finch: American literature's most celebrated rape apologistPoe's law: Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Interesting: UFO Phil | Landover Baptist Church | Clarke's three laws Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 18/12/14 08:47 AM |
| 1 | What law change would disrupt intersexual relations the most?Legitimacy (law): In Western common law, legitimacy is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other; and of a child conceived before the parents receive a legal divorce. Conversely, illegitimacy (or bastardy) is the status of a child born outside marriage. The consequences of illegitimacy have pertained mainly to a child's rights of inheritance to the putative father's estate and the child's right to bear the father's surname or title. Illegitimacy has also had con… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/12/14 06:52 AM |
| 1 | Imagine if a man did this to a girl: "Angry Aunt Who Sliced Off Three-Year-Old Nephew’s Penis Facing Five Years In Jail"Female genital mutilation: Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser with a blade or razor, with or without anaesthesia, FGM is concentrated in 27 countries in Africa, as well as in Yemen and Iraqi Kurdistan. It is also practised elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East, and among diaspora communities around the world. The age… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/14 05:42 AM |
| 1 | Men will have to cough up Rs. 100 if found occupying ladies’ seats in buses. KSRTC to soon introduce buses exclusively for womenClaudette Colvin: Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the more publicized Rosa Parks incident by nine months. Colvin was among the five women originally included in the federal court case, filed on February 1, 1956 as Browder v. Gayle, and testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United State… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/14 01:45 AM |
| 1 | I am having trouble understanding how beta bux and social value work. All pills please give your thoughts.Assemblywomen: Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae (Greek: Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Ekklesiazousai; translated as Assemblywomen, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, and A Parliament of Women) is a play dating from 391 BC which is similar in theme to Lysistrata in that a large portion of the comedy comes from women involving themselves in politics. This play is much more infused with gender issues than Lysistrata is. This play also shows a change in the style of Ancient Greek comedy after the short… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/12/14 12:28 AM |
| 6 | Having a "miscarriage" gives you the right to ignore rules of the road and be rude to officers.Pennsylvania v. Mimms: Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106 (1977), is a United States Supreme Court criminal law decision holding that a police officer ordering a person out of a car following a traffic stop and conducting a pat-down to check for weapons did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Interesting: List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 434 | Terry stop | 99 Problems | Traffic stop Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on … | /r/PussyPassDenied | 17/12/14 11:27 PM |
| 1 | (X-post from TwoX) A Misouri state representative proposed a bill which would require pregnant women to obtain written consent from the father in order to have an abortion. Now, I think men should have more reproductive rights, but this bill is just horrible!Libertarian perspectives on abortion: Libertarians promote individual liberty and seek to minimize the role of the state. In the abortion debate some libertarians support legal access to abortion as part of their general support for individual rights, especially in regard to what they consider to be a woman's right to control her body. Religious right and intellectual conservatives have attacked such libertarians for supporting abortion rights, especially since the demise of the Soviet Union. Ot… | /r/MensRights | 17/12/14 11:24 PM |
| 3 | Rape Glam: '... a developing and startling trend ... glamorization of rape as a means of fitting into a social clique.'Münchausen syndrome: Münchausen syndrome, is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves. It is also sometimes known as hospital addiction syndrome, thick chart syndrome, or hospital hopper syndrome. True Münchausen syndrome fits within the subclass of factitious disorder with predominantly physical signs and symptoms, but they also have a history of recurrent hospitalization, t… | /r/MensRights | 17/12/14 01:56 PM |
| 2 | CMV: I'm entitled to sex.Mosuo women: Known to many as the 'Kingdom of Women', the Mosuo (Chinese: 摩梭; pinyin: Mósuō) are a small ethnic group living in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, close to the border with Tibet. A population of about 50,000, the Mosuo are found near Lugu Lake in the Tibetan Himalayas 27°42′35.30″N 100°47′4.04″E / 27.7098056°N 100.7844556°E / 27.7098056; 100.7844556. Scholars use diverse terms and spellings to designate the Mosuo culture. Most prefer 'Mosuo' some spell it 'Moso', while a m… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/12/14 01:51 PM |
| 2 | Movies (any and all Genres) that have characters & stories based on Red Pill philosophy?[How to Murder Your Wife]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Murder%20Your%20Wife]): See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage Interesting: How to Murder Your Wife | Terry-Thomas | Eddie Mayehoff | Alan Hewitt | Richard Quine Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 17/12/14 11:00 AM |
| 2 | Feminists ignore 1400 little girls getting raped.Section 15. Paedophile Information Exchange allegations and response of article Harriet Harman: On 24 February 2014, Harman denied allegations that she had supported the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when the advocacy group was affiliated with the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), while she was the pressure group's Legal Officer from 1978 to 1982. The Conservative-leaning Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph claimed that Jack Dromey MP (her partner) and former Health Secretary Patri… | /r/MensRights | 17/12/14 03:03 AM |
| 1 | PUA and AWALTNo true Scotsman: No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"). Interesti… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/12/14 02:55 AM |
| 1 | (Daily) [UPDATE] The neverending narrative of the headstrong hamsterFalse dilemma: A false dilemma (also called black-and-white thinking, bifurcation, denying a conjunct, the either-or fallacy, false dichotomy, fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the fallacy of false choice, the fallacy of the false alternative, or the fallacy of the excluded middle) is a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. The opposite of this fallacy is argument to moderation. … | /r/MarriedRedPill | 17/12/14 01:11 AM |
| 1 | 126 killed mostly "Children" in fact ALL BOYS. Once again, mainstream media fails to mention that all the children killed were boys...why am I not surprised?2014 Peshawar school hostage crisis: On 16 December 2014, seven gunmen belonging to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan entered an Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and began attacking the school staff and students. The number of deaths has been reported to be, at least, between 141 and 145 people. At least 132 of them were children between the ages of 10 and 18 years. At least 114 people have been reported to be injured and admitted to the Combined Military and Lady Reading Hospita… | /r/MensRights | 16/12/14 09:12 PM |
| 13 | Esther Vilar vs feminist [1975] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_VilarEsther Vilar: Esther Vilar, born Esther Margareta Katzen (September 16, 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian-German writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. She is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man and its various follow-ups, which argue that, contrary to common feminist and women's rights rhetoric, women in industrialized cultures are not oppressed, but rather exploit a well-established system of manipulating me… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 16/12/14 04:22 PM |
| 2 | What do you think of SJWs? All pills please.Eric Hoffer: Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change was his finest work. Interesting: Christopher Klim | True-believer syndrome | Under Kilimanjaro | Leslie M. Gold… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/12/14 02:35 PM |
| 1 | Help, I think I'm doing it wrongOxytocin: Oxytocin (/ˌɒksɨˈtoʊsɪn/; Oxt) is a mammalian neurohypophysial hormone. Produced by the hypothalamus and stored and secreted by the posterior pituitary gland, oxytocin acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain. Oxytocin plays an important role in the neuroanatomy of intimacy, specifically in sexual reproduction of both sexes, in particular during and after childbirth; its name comes from Greek ὀξύς, oksys "swift" and τόκος, tokos "birth." It is released in large amounts after dis… | /r/MarriedRedPill | 16/12/14 03:24 AM |
| 2 | Why British Medical Journal’s “men are idiots” research joke isn’t funnyThe Myth of Male Power: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex (Simon and Schuster, 1st Ed., 1993; 2nd Ed., Berkely, 2000) is a book by Warren Farrell. In the book, Farrell argues that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically disadvantaged in many ways. Like Herb Goldberg's 'The Hazards of Being Male, Farrell's The Myth of Male Power is considered a standard of the men's movement, and has been translate… | /r/MensRights | 15/12/14 09:32 PM |
| 3 | What is the difference between calling out radical redpillers and radical feminists?Section 4. Criticism of article Luce Irigaray: Many feminists seek to criticize the perceived essentialist positions of Luce Irigaray. However, there is much debate among scholars as to whether or not Irigaray's theory of sexual difference is, indeed, an essentialist one. The perception that Luce Irigaray's work is essentialist concentrates on her attention to sexual difference, taking this to constitute a rehearsal of hetero-normative sexuality. As Helen Fielding states, the uneasiness among fe… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/12/14 05:18 PM |
| 3 | A former Texas nurse poisoned and killed up to 46 children and was sentenced to over 150 years in prison. She will be released in 2017 to prevent prison crowding. (x-post from /r/todayilearned)Kenneth McDuff: Kenneth Allen McDuff (March 21, 1946 – November 17, 1998) was an American murderer. He was convicted of murdering sixteen-year-old Edna Sullivan, her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Robert Brand, and Robert’s cousin, fifteen-year-old Mark Dunnam, who was visiting from California. They were all strangers who McDuff abducted after noticing Sullivan; she was repeatedly raped before having her neck broken with a broomstick. McDuff was given three death sentences, and subsequently convi… | /r/MensRights | 15/12/14 03:42 PM |
| 3 | Why British Medical Journal’s “men are idiots” research joke isn’t funnySection 10. Intelligence of article Sex differences in psychology: Differences in intelligence or mental power have long been a hot topic among researchers and scholars. With the advent of the concept of g or general intelligence some form of empiricism was allowed, but results are often inconsistent with studies showing either no differences or advantages for both sexes, with most showing a slight advantage for males. One study did find some advantage for women in later life, while another foun… | /r/MensRights | 15/12/14 02:20 PM |
| 1 | A question for blue pillers, do you think being falsely accused and being found guilty for rape is worse than being raped?Sensitivity and specificity: Sensitivity and specificity are statistical measures of the performance of a binary classification test, also known in statistics as classification function. Sensitivity (also called the true positive rate, or the recall rate in some fields) measures the proportion of actual positives which are correctly identified as such (e.g., the percentage of sick people who are correctly identified as having the condition), and is complementary to the false negative rate. Speci… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/14 11:13 PM |
| 9 | Woman sentenced to 150 years in jail for killing 1-46 infants as a pediatric nurse is now being released in 2017 due to overcrowding prisonGenene Jones: Genene Anne Jones (born July 13, 1950) is a former pediatric nurse who killed somewhere between 1 and 46 infants and children in her care. She used injections of digoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, with the intention of reviving them afterward in order to receive praise and attention. These medications are known to cause heart paralysis and other complications when given as an overdose. Many children, however, did not survive the ini… | /r/PussyPass | 14/12/14 04:58 PM |
| 1 | females in the militaryConscription in Australia: Conscription in Australia, or mandatory military service also known as national service, has a controversial history dating back to the first years of nationhood. Australia currently has no conscription. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>World</sup> <sup>War</sup> <sup>I</sup> <sup>conscription</sup> <sup>in</sup> <sup>Australia <sup>|</sup> <sup>Australian</sup> <sup>plebiscite,</sup> <sup>1917 <sup>|</sup> <sup>Defence</sup> <sup>(Citizen</sup> <su… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/14 03:49 AM |
| 1 | How do you guys get over a break up?Calypso (mythology): Calypso (/kəˈlɪpsoʊ/; Greek: Καλυψώ, Kalypsō) was a nymph in Greek mythology, who lived on the island of Ogygia, where she detained Odysseus for several years. She is generally said to be the daughter of the Titan Atlas. Hesiod mentions either different Calypsos or the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid daughters of Tethys and Oceanus, and Pseudo-Apollodorus as one of the Nereid daughters of Nereus and Doris. Image i Interesting: The House of Hades | Calypso (moon) | Oceanid… | /r/MGTOW | 13/12/14 12:22 AM |
| 1 | If both the genders are equal WHY ON EARTH DO WOMEN WANT A 33% reservation.Reservation is not for equals if I am not wrong.Women's Reservation Bill: Women's Reservation Bill or the The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, is a pending bill in India which proposes to amend the Constitution of India to reserve 33 per cent of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India, the Lok Sabha, and in all state legislative assemblies for women. The seats to be reserved in rotation will be determined by draw of lots in such a way that a seat shall be reserved only once in three consecutive general elections. The Upper Hou… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/14 11:04 PM |
| 2 | One question in the mandatory sexual misconduct quiz for all students at the University of Oklahoma.Weasel word: A weasel word (also, anonymous authority) is an informal term for words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that a specific and/or meaningful statement has been made, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated, enabling the specific meaning to be denied if the statement is challenged. A more formal term is equivocation. The use of weasel words to avoid making an outright assertion is a synonym to tergiversate. Weasel words can imply meaning far beyond… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/14 06:37 PM |
| 1 | You Can't Just Accuse People of RapeEmmett Till: Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's grea… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/14 04:30 PM |
| 1 | NoFap and TRP?Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belongingness" and "love", "… | /r/askTRP | 12/12/14 02:41 PM |
| 1 | why is the red pill party line "don't talk about red pill to non red pillers"?Antisocial personality disorder: Antisocial (or dissocial) personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others. There may be an impoverished moral sense or conscience and a history of crime, legal problems, and impulsive and aggressive behavior. Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is the name of the disorder as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Dissocial personality disorder is the name of a similar or equi… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/12/14 01:38 PM |
| 1 | Quick Question: Why do MRAs hate feminists?Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/14 10:47 AM |
| 1 | Rape Culture Doesn’t Exist And There Is No Rape EpidemicSexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the east of the country in particular, has been described as the "rape capital of the world," and the prevalence and intensity of all forms of sexual violence has been described as the worst in the world. Human Rights Watch defines sexual violence as “an act of a sexual nature by force, or by threat of force or coercion,” and rape as “a form of sexual violence during which the body of a person is i… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/14 06:18 AM |
| 1 | Just a little Christmas reminder of how batshit insane Anita Sarkeesian is (warning: use a blocker for her video)Flunitrazepam: Flunitrazepam /ˌfluːnɨˈtræzɨpæm/ — also known as Narcozep, Rohypnol, Rohipnol, Roipnol, or roofies — is an intermediate acting benzodiazepine used as an hypnotic, sedative, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, and skeletal muscle relaxant drug. It was developed by a team led by Leo Sternbach at Hoffman La-Roche in produced the common precursors to 1,4-benzophenones in 1963. A series of tests showed that an N-methyl & '2F-fluoro produced the most potent hypnotic of the series that started w… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/14 04:18 AM |
| 1 | A female documentary maker visits Rohtak village, exposes the feminist media that camped in the village to glorify two girls as heroes. She finds evidences that the girls were actually villains, they used to abuse men and extort money from them. These women bullies had terrorized the residents.Section 12. Victims of rape of article Honor killing: In many cultures, victims of rape face severe violence, including honor killings, from their families and relatives. In many parts of the world, women who have been raped are considered to have brought 'dishonour' or 'disgrace' to their families. This is especially the case if the victim becomes pregnant. Central to the code of honor, in many societies, is a woman's virginity, which must be preserved until marriage. Suzanne Ruggi writes, "A w… | /r/MensRights | 11/12/14 09:46 PM |
| 1 | A female documentary maker visits Rohtak village, exposes the feminist media that camped in the village to glorify two girls as heroes. She finds evidences that the girls were actually villains, they used to abuse men and extort money from them. These women bullies had terrorized the residents.Section 12. Victims of rape of article Honor killing: In many cultures, victims of rape face severe violence, including honor killings, from their families and relatives. In many parts of the world, women who have been raped are considered to have brought 'dishonour' or 'disgrace' to their families. This is especially the case if the victim becomes pregnant. Central to the code of honor, in many societies, is a woman's virginity, which must be preserved until marriage. Suzanne Ruggi writes, "A w… | /r/MensRights | 11/12/14 08:45 PM |
| 2 | Does no one else see why this is disgusting to have in a school?Sexual dimorphism: Sexual dimorphism is a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species. The prototypical example is for differences in characteristics of reproductive organs. Other possible examples are for secondary sex characteristics, body size and morphology, ornamentation and behavior. ==== Image <sup>i</sup> - Female (left) and male (right) common pheasant, illustrating the dramatic difference in both color and size between sexes <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Sexual</… | /r/MensRights | 11/12/14 10:10 AM |
| 1 | Just started swallowing the red pill. Shortly after I discovered The Blue Pill sub and it made me feel sick and angry. This brought up another problem in my life, how do you all handle it when you see someone or a group with enraging opinions like that?Section 1. Basic tenets of article Stoicism: The Stoics provided a unified account of the world, consisting of formal logic, monistic physics and naturalistic ethics. Of these, they emphasized ethics as the main focus of human knowledge, though their logical theories were of more interest for later philosophers. Stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one t… | /r/askTRP | 11/12/14 09:17 AM |
| 1 | It's quite possible that every stroke for an uncircumcised man feels like an orgasm does for a circumcised man.Choice-supportive bias: In cognitive science, choice-supportive bias is the tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected. It is a cognitive bias. For example, if a person buys a computer from Apple instead of a computer (PC) running Windows, he is likely to ignore or downplay the faults of Apple computers while amplifying those of Windows computers. Conversely, he is also likely to notice and amplify advantages of Apple computers and not notice or de-emphas… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/14 10:34 PM |
| 1 | Lena Dunham writes for Buzzfeed and desperately tries to deflect her false rape claim: Why I Chose To Speak OutSexual misconduct allegations against Bill Clinton: Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Before that, he was Governor of the state of Arkansas, and afterwards he has continued life in the public eye. Clinton has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers though charges were also made by Kathleen Willey. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Bill</sup> <sup>Clinton</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Hillary</sup> <sup>Rodham</sup> <… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/14 07:53 PM |
| 1 | We Should Name Rape Accusers: It is time to lift the veil of anonymityAppeal to emotion: Appeals to emotions: Part of persuasion <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Loaded</sup> <sup>language</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Appeal</sup> <sup>to</sup> <sup>pity</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Truthiness</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Appeal</sup> <sup>to</sup> <sup>ridicule</sup> <sup>Parent</sup> <sup>commenter</sup> <sup>can</sup> [<sup>toggle</sup> <sup>NSFW](/message/compose?to=autowikibot&subject=AutoWikibot</sup> NSFW toggle&message=%2Btoggle-nsfw+cmqs66e) <sup>or</sup> [<sup>delete](/mes… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/14 02:39 PM |
| 0 | 5 girls beat up 1 girl and a guy won't have itBulling (cattle): Bulling is a behaviour seen in cattle when one mounts another, usually when one or the other is a female in oestrus (on heat); "bulling" is commonly used as a term for a female in oestrus. Female cattle in oestrus may mount any adult cattle, especially a bull (fertile male) if one is present, but they will also mount castrated males or other females. A bulling female will often also be mounted by other cattle, both male and female (only fertile males are usually capable of mati… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 10/12/14 01:08 PM |
| 1 | Australian woman sues for malicious prosecution after being acquitted of attempted murder of abusive husbandSection 7. Price's murder of article Katherine Knight: In February 2000, a series of assaults on Price culminated with Knight stabbing Price in the chest. Finally fed up, he kicked her out of his house. On 29 February, he stopped at the Scone Magistrate's Court on his way to work and took out a restraining order to keep her away from both him and his children. That afternoon, Price told his co-workers that if he did not come to work the next day, it would be because Knight had killed him. They p… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/14 08:30 AM |
| 2 | Clingy Chinese LeftOver Woman in Train.Sheng nu: Sheng nu (剩女; shèngnǚ; common translation: "leftover women" or "leftover ladies") is a pejorative term made popular by the All-China Women's Federation that classifies women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. The term is most prominently used in China, including a state sponsored directive and program, but has been used to describe women across Asia, India, and North America. The term has gone on to become widely used in the mainstream media and has been the subjec… | /r/MGTOW | 10/12/14 08:27 AM |
| 3 | We Should Name Rape Accusers: It is time to lift the veil of anonymityYouth Criminal Justice Act: Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA, in French Loi sur le système de justice pénale pour les adolescents) is a Canadian statute, which came into effect on April 1, 2003. It covers the prosecution of youths for criminal offences. The YCJA replaced the Young Offenders Act, which was a replacement for the Juvenile Delinquents Act. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Young</sup> <sup>Offenders</sup> <sup>Act</sup> <sup>|</sup> <sup>Criminal</sup> <sup>Code</sup> <sup>of</s… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/14 04:02 AM |
| 3 | Great post from /r/4chan about SJWsSelf-fulfilling prophecy: A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression "self-fulfilling prophecy" and formalizing its structure and consequence… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/14 02:17 AM |
| 1 | Do you think TRPers are "entitled"?Scientific consensus: Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity. Consensus is normally achieved through communication at conferences, the publication process, replication (reproducible results by others), and peer review. These lead to a situation in which those within the discipline can often recognize such a consensus where it exists,… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/12/14 03:11 PM |
| 1 | Do you think TRPers are "entitled"?Peer review: Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers). It constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards of quality, improve performance, and provide credibility. In academia peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication. In parallel with these 'common experience' defini… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/12/14 03:09 PM |
| 1 | Do you think TRPers are "entitled"?Scientific consensus: Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity. Consensus is normally achieved through communication at conferences, the publication process, replication (reproducible results by others), and peer review. These lead to a situation in which those within the discipline can often recognize such a consensus where it exists,… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/12/14 03:09 PM |
| 3 | 77 year old pussy pass deniedStop and identify statutes: "Stop and identify" statutes are statute laws in the United States that authorize police to legally obtain the identification of someone whom they reasonably suspect has committed a crime. If the person is not reasonably suspected of committing a crime, they are not required to provide identification, even in states with stop and identify statutes. The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits un… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/12/14 02:34 PM |
| 1 | So what do you guys think of the Bill Cosby accusations?Section 8. Kanin (1994) of article False accusation of rape: In 1994, Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University investigated the incidences of false rape allegations made to the police in one small urban community between 1978 and 1987. He states that unlike those in many larger jurisdictions, this police department had the resources to "seriously record and pursue to closure all rape complaints, regardless of their merits." He further states each investigation "always involves a serious offer to pol… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/14 05:32 AM |
| 1 | How do you respond to "that's not what real feminism is about..." ?No true Scotsman: No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"). Interesti… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/14 01:32 AM |
| 1 | Do you think TRPers are "entitled"?Pareto principle: The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population; Pareto developed the principle by observing that 20% of the pea pods in his g… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/14 08:56 PM |
| 1 | Updated apology digs bigger hole for Rolling Stone - UVA False Rape Article SagaJournalistic scandal: Journalism scandals are high-profile incidents or acts, whether intentional or accidental, that run contrary to the generally accepted ethics and standards of journalism, or otherwise violate the 'ideal' mission of journalism: to report news events and issues accurately and fairly. As the investigative and reporting face of the media, journalists are usually required to follow various journalistic standards. These may be written and codified, or customary expectations. Typi… | /r/MensRights | 08/12/14 08:16 PM |
| 1 | The ongoing Ray Rice nonsense that has got to stop.Self-defense (United States): In the United States, the defense of self-defense allows a person to use reasonable force in his or her own defense or the defense of others (see the theoretical background for why this is allowed). On a federal level, self defense is legal only in response to "An affirmative, unlawful act reasonably calculated to produce an affray foreboding injurious or fatal consequences." The definition of legal self defense on a state level often varies significantly from this … | /r/MensRights | 08/12/14 04:41 PM |
| 1 | What's the psychology behind women who claim false rape?The personal is political: The personal is political, also termed The private is political, is a political argument used as a rallying slogan of student movement and second-wave feminism from the late 1960s. It underscored the connections between personal experience and larger social and political structures. In the context of the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, it was a challenge to the nuclear family and family values. The phrase has been repeatedly described as a defining characteri… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/14 04:27 PM |
| 1 | Ask a Male Feminist!Gender differences in suicide: Gender differences in suicide rates have been shown to be significant; there are highly asymmetric rates of attempted and completed suicide between males and females. The gap, also called the gender paradox of suicidal behavior, can vary significantly between different countries. Statistics indicate that males die much more often by means of suicide than do females; however, reported suicide attempts and thoughts are much more common among females than males. Image… | /r/MensRights | 07/12/14 10:54 PM |
| 1 | Is society misleading men about what women want?Section 5. Origin as fan fiction of article Fifty Shades of Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey has attracted criticism due to its origin as a fan fiction based on the Twilight novels, with some readers predicting copyright issues due to this connection. Amanda Hayward of The Writer's Coffee Shop responded to these claims by stating that Fifty Shades of Grey "bore very little resemblance to Twilight" and that "Twilight and Fifty Shades trilogy are worlds apart". In April 2012, E. L. James was listed as o… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/12/14 07:48 PM |
| 2 | If feminism ceased to existJosephine Earp: Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1861-December 19, 1944) was the common-law wife of famed Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town Tombstone, Arizona Territory when she was living with Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan. Josephine was born in New York to a Prussian Jewish family; her father was a baker and while a young girl she attended dance school in San Francisco. When her father had a difficult time finding work as a baker, the fam… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/12/14 03:04 PM |
| 1 | Bill Cosby Fires Back at Sexual Abuse Lawsuit, alleging an extortion attempt behind the allegations and dismantling Judy Huth's "Drinking game" story, as he is a teetotalerRoman Polanski: Roman Polanski (born Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański; 18 August 1933) is a Polish and, since 1976, naturalized-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France and the United States, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers." Polanski's films have inspired diverse directors, including the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Atom Egoyan, Darren Aronofsky, Park Chan-wook, Abel Ferrara, and Wes C… | /r/MensRights | 07/12/14 05:30 AM |
| 1 | Does love exist?Greek words for love: The Greek language distinguishes at least four different ways as to how the word love is used. Ancient Greek has four distinct words for love: agápe, éros, philía, and storgē. However, as with other languages, it has been historically difficult to separate the meanings of these words when used outside of their respective contexts. Nonetheless, the senses in which these words were generally used are as follows: Agápe (ἀγάπη agápē ) means "love: esp. brotherly love, charity; … | /r/askTRP | 06/12/14 01:18 PM |
| 1 | /r/mensrights, what are you political affiliations?Horseshoe theory: The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye. In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox," an… | /r/MensRights | 06/12/14 02:50 AM |
| 7 | Rolling Stone retracts UVA rape storyMoral panic: A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension, and in which disagreement is difficult because the matter at its center is taboo. The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiet… | /r/MensRights | 05/12/14 09:01 PM |
| 1 | "MRAssholes are basically the Klan. You know, 'cept the Klan is probably more inclusive these days."Womanism: Womanism is a social theory deeply rooted in the racial and gender oppression of black women. There are varying interpretations on what the term womanist means and efforts to provide a concise and all encompassing definition have only been marginally successful. The ambiguity within the theory allows for its continuous expansion of its basic tenets. At its core, womanism is a social change perspective based upon the everyday problems and experiences of black women and other women of mi… | /r/MensRights | 05/12/14 05:43 PM |
| 1 | Question for BP: Have you witnessed first-hand in real life, examples of the Red Pill appearing to have truth behind it? If so, what makes you stick with being BP/anti-Red Pill, despite witnessing Red Pill behavior from men/women in real life?Erotic capital: Sexual capital or erotic capital is the social value an individual or group accrues, as a result of their sexual attractiveness. As with other forms of capital, sexual capital is convertible, and may be useful in acquiring other forms of capital, including social capital and economic capital. Interesting: Sexual capital | Sexual attraction | Catherine Hakim | Vanity | Trophy wife Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs |… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/12/14 05:00 PM |
| 2 | Women's group wants paid leave for mensurationMensuration: Mensuration may refer to: Measurement Theory of measurement Mensuration (mathematics), a branch of mathematics that deals with measurement of various parameters of geometric figures Forest mensuration, a branch of forestry that deals with measurements of forest stand Mensural notation in music Mensuration canon, a musical composition wherein the main melody is accompanied by one or more imitations of that melody in other voices. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>Solid</sup> <sup>geometry… | /r/MensRights | 05/12/14 08:57 AM |
| 2 | MGTOW - JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE / DAVE FOLEY'S DIVORCEDave Foley: David Scott "Dave" Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director and producer best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall and NewsRadio. Image i Interesting: Dave Foley (American football) | Dave Foley (rugby union) | It's Pat Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MGTOW | 05/12/14 08:16 AM |
| 1 | Two girls bully a guy. He snaps and attacks them, hes now in prison. The girls get their sob story aired on national tv.Involuntary commitment: Involuntary commitment or civil commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court-ordered into treatment in a hospital (inpatient) or in the community (outpatient). Criteria for civil commitment are established by laws, which vary between nations. Commitment proceedings often follow a period of emergency hospitalization, during which an individual with acute psychiatric symptoms is confined for a relatively short dur… | /r/PussyPass | 05/12/14 01:01 AM |
| 1 | To what point do you appreciate feminism?Section 2. History of article Seven Sisters %28colleges%29: Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra note that "Independent nonprofit women’s colleges, which included the 'Seven Sisters' were founded to provide educational opportunities to women equal to those available to men and were geared toward women who wanted to study the liberal arts". The colleges also offered broader opportunities in academia to women, hiring many female faculty members and administrators. Early proponents of … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/12/14 12:48 AM |
| 1 | CMV: Men have a biological clock almost as strong as a woman'sAnti-Müllerian hormone: Anti-Müllerian hormone also known as AMH is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the AMH gene. It inhibits the development of the Müllerian ducts (paramesonephric ducts) in the male embryo. It has also been called Müllerian inhibiting factor (MIF), Müllerian-inhibiting hormone (MIH), Müllerian-inhibiting substance (MIS), and Anti-paramesonephric hormone (APH). It is named after Johannes Peter Müller. Interesting: Anti-Müllerian hormone receptor | Persistent Müllerian … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/12/14 09:19 PM |
| 1 | No, We Can’t Just Leave College Sexual Assault to the Police - Radical Feminists argue against ending the Campus Kangaroo Courts by unqualified amateurs in AcademiaMike Nifong: Michael Byron "Mike" Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is a former North Carolina attorney. He was the district attorney for Durham County, North Carolina (the state's 14th Prosecutorial District) but was removed and disbarred due to court findings concerning his conduct in the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. Several criminal justice bills passed by the North Carolina legislature later that same year are believed to have been brought about by Nifong's actions in the Duke lacrosse… | /r/MensRights | 04/12/14 03:31 PM |
| 1 | "Pedophile Panic at the Salvation Army: No Teen Boys Allowed, Too Dangerous"Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 04/12/14 10:56 AM |
| 2 | Unicorn or Oneitis? [TMA]Confirmation bias: Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, or remember information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or recall information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret am… | /r/askTRP | 04/12/14 05:38 AM |
| 1 | How far removed philosophically would you put TRP and RPW?Alice Schwarzer: Alice Schwarzer (born December 3, 1942 in Wuppertal) is a prominent but controversial contemporary German feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA. Image i - Alice Schwarzer, 2009 Interesting: EMMA (magazine) | Feminist sexology | Women in Germany Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/14 11:45 PM |
| 1 | Am I off base? While I agree "revenge porn" should probably be illegal, I can't help feeling like it's going to be yet another large weapon in the ammo box for false accusers.Exchangeable image file format: Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT) for compressed im… | /r/MensRights | 03/12/14 04:48 PM |
| 1 | CDC accepting comments on circumcision recommendation. Now is the time to tell the CDC that genital mutilation of boys is unacceptable.Kayan people (Burma): The Kayan are a subgroup of the Red Karen (Karenni) people, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Burma (Myanmar). The Kayan consists of the following groups: Kayan Lahwi (also called Padaung, ပေဒါင္ [bədàʊɴ]), Kayan Ka Khaung (Gekho), Kayan Lahta, Kayan Ka Ngan. Kayan Gebar, Kayan Kakhi and, sometimes, Bwe people (Kayaw). Padaung (Yan Pa Doung) is a Shan term for the Kayan Lahwi (the group whose women wear the brass neck coils). The Kayan residents in Mae Hong Son Province in… | /r/MensRights | 03/12/14 02:39 PM |
| 1 | Taking a step back from the Never Say No to Sex discussionSexual motivation and hormones: Sexual motivation is influenced by hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin, and vasopressin. In most mammalian species, sex hormones control the ability to engage in sexual behaviours. However, sex hormones do not directly regulate the ability to copulate in primates (including humans). Rather, sex hormones in primates are only one influence on the motivation to engage in sexual behaviours. Image i Interesting: Sex steroid | Hormone | Libid… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/14 02:31 PM |
| 1 | The fact that there are more women than men, especially at or above voting age could explain the feminist control over the government.Voting gender gap: The voting gender gap is defined as the difference, typically in percentage, between men and women voters. This gap can occur even if both genders support the same candidate. Interesting: Women's suffrage in the United States | Voting behavior | Gender studies | Gender role Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 03/12/14 01:58 PM |
| 3 | Barber gives zero shits from feminist death threats.Ladies' night: A ladies' night is a promotional event, often at a bar or nightclub, where female patrons pay less than male patrons for the cover charge or drinks. State courts in California, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have ruled that ladies' night discounts are unlawful gender discrimination under state or local statutes. However, courts in Illinois, Minnesota, and Washington have rejected a variety of challenges to such discounts. Interesting: Not Tonight | Ladies' Night in a Turkish… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 03/12/14 10:59 AM |
| 1 | Would you sleep with someone who wanted to cheat on their SO? Assume you are single.Schadenfreude: Schadenfreude (/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʀɔɪ̯də] ) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This word is taken from German and literally means 'harm-joy.' It is the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune. It is also borrowed by some other languages. Interesting: Carnival of Schadenfreude | Schadenfreude (EP) | Mudita | Appeal to spite Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less.… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/12/14 08:14 PM |
| 2 | Women sends a rape threat to herself, gets denied!Crystal Mangum: Crystal Gail Mangum (born July 18, 1978) is a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who is best known for making false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the Duke lacrosse case. The fact that Mangum was an African-American woman, while the accused were all white men, created extensive media interest and academic debate about race, gender and the politicization of the justice system. In November 2013, she was found guilty of second-degree murder related to a fatal attack… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 02/12/14 07:53 PM |
| 2 | What is "your"(you personally) biggest goal for Mens Rights?Bystander effect: The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. Several variables help to explain why the bystander effect occurs. These variables include: ambiguity, c… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/14 07:31 AM |
| 1 | So many parallels between this very well done film and what we see today re: "rape culture"Moral panic: A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension, and in which disagreement is difficult because the matter at its center is taboo. The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiet… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/14 04:29 AM |
| 2 | Need Help- Meninazi?2014 Isla Vista killings: A killing spree was perpetrated on May 23, 2014, in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger. Rodger killed six people and injured thirteen others before committing suicide. The spree began when Rodger stabbed to death three men in his apartment. Leaving the scene in his car, he drove to a sorority house, where he shot four people outside, killing two female students. He drove to a nearby delicatess… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/14 02:00 AM |
| 3 | I see articles about young girls being "sexualized" all the time, but never about boys.The Beautiful Boy: The Beautiful Boy (or just The Boy ) is a book, ISBN 0-8478-2586-8, by Germaine Greer, published in 2003. Its avowed intention was "to advance women's reclamation of their capacity for and right to visual pleasure". It is a study of the youthful male face and form, from antiquity to the present day, from paintings and drawings to statuary and photographs. The cover picture caused minor controversy when the subject of the photograph, Björn Andrésen, a Swedish actor and musician… | /r/MensRights | 01/12/14 05:14 AM |
| 1 | 2.5 years LTR - dump her 2 months ago due to my BP and fed up of her shit, swallowing RP as single. Ignoring her but she hamsters.Epicureanism: Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention. Following Aristippus—about whom very little is known—Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" is the greatest good, but the way to attain such pleasure is to live modestly and to gain knowl… | /r/askTRP | 01/12/14 01:00 AM |
| 1 | [India]2 women beat men with belts in bus. police case filed against men, media brands the women as braveheartsMen's rights movement in India: The men's rights movement in India is associated with various men's rights organizations. They demand gender neutral laws and repeal of laws that they consider anti-men. Interesting: Save Indian Family (SIF) | Index of masculism topics | Save Indian Family Foundation Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 30/11/14 10:40 PM |
| 1 | What is the evolutionary advantage to a man (that man) of oneitis?R/K selection theory: In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring. The focus upon either increased quantity of offspring at the expense of individual parental investment, or reduced quantity of offspring with a corresponding increased parental investment, varies widely, seemingly to promote success in particular environments. The etymology is from an equation where r comes from rate an… | /r/askTRP | 30/11/14 06:36 PM |
| 2 | Repost - Just swallowed the red pill, have some questions.Iron John: A Book About Men: Iron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley, and his best known work to the public at large. An exegesis of Iron John, a parable about a boy maturing into adulthood (monomyth) with help of the wild man, and part of the Grimms' Fairy Tales published in 1812 by German folklorists Brothers Grimm, it spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list and went on to become a pioneering work in mythopoetic me… | /r/askTRP | 30/11/14 01:46 AM |
| 2 | The Huffington Post twitter manager thinks men rage at the thought of women making videogames. Upon not getting the clickbait outrage reaction they wanted, they quickly delete the tweet.Section 5. Authorship of Frankenstein of article Mary Shelley: Since Frankenstein was published anonymously in 1818, readers and critics argued over its origins and the contributions of the two Shelleys to the book. There are differences in the 1818, 1823, and 1831 editions, and Mary Shelley wrote, "I certainly did not owe the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling, to my husband, and yet but for his incitement, it would never have taken the form in which it was present… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/14 10:20 PM |
| 2 | Fiction books with "alpha male" main characters?One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel): One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of the institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a celebration of humanistic principles. Published in 1962, the novel was adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel for the 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman, which won five Academy … | /r/becomeaman | 29/11/14 07:22 PM |
| 1 | Dr. Watson is selling his Nobel Prize.Flynn effect: The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. When intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 or 16 IQ points. When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/11/14 05:38 PM |
| 1 | Can there be too much dread?Section 10. Intermittent reinforcement of article Reinforcement: Pigeons experimented on in a scientific study were more responsive to intermittent reinforcement, than continuous reinforcement. In other words, pigeons were more prone to act when they only sometimes could get what they wanted. This effect was such that behavioral responses were maximized when the reward rate was at 50% (in other words, when the uncertainty was maximized), and would gradually decline toward values on either side o… | /r/askTRP | 29/11/14 01:20 PM |
| 6 | Piers Morgan on rape of Shia LabeoufPiers Morgan: Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born Piers Stefan O'Meara, 30 March 1965), known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television personality currently working in the United States as Editor-at-Large (US) of MailOnline. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children published in the UK. He began hosting Piers Morgan Live on CNN on 17 January 2011. The show replaced Larry King Live in the 9:00 pm timeslot following King's retirement. Piers… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/14 06:50 AM |
| 1 | Fiction books with "alpha male" main characters?Altered Carbon: Altered Carbon (2002) is a hardboiled cyberpunk science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan. Set some five hundred years in the future in a universe in which the United Nations Protectorate oversees a number of extrasolar planets settled by human beings, it features protagonist Takeshi Kovacs. Kovacs is a former United Nations Envoy and a native of Harlan's World, a planet settled by a Japanese keiretsu with Eastern European labour. Image i Interesting: Richard K. Morgan | Broken … | /r/becomeaman | 29/11/14 05:40 AM |
| 1 | FR - IranEthnicities in Iran: Approximately 75–80% of Iran's peoples speak Iranian languages. The major groups in this category include Persians, Kurds, Gilakiss, Mazandaranis, Lurs, Tats, Talyshs and Baluchs. Turkic speakers, such as the Azerbaijani, Turkmen and the Qashqai peoples, constitute a substantial minority. The remainder are primarily Semitics such as Arabs and Assyrians or other Indo-Europeans such as Armenians and Europeans. The Georgian language is the only Caucasian language fully function… | /r/askTRP | 29/11/14 01:49 AM |
| 3 | Feminist pounce after barbershop owner makes it clear women are not allowed.Skene's gland: In human anatomy (female), Skene's glands or the Skene glands (/skiːn/) (US dict: skēn) (also known as the lesser vestibular glands, periurethral glands, paraurethral glands, female prostate) are glands located on the anterior wall of the vagina, around the lower end of the urethra. They drain into the urethra and near the urethral opening and may be near or a part of the G-spot. These glands are surrounded with tissue (which includes the part of the clitoris) that reaches up insi… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/14 10:32 PM |
| 1 | Feminist pounce after barbershop owner makes it clear women are not allowed.Feminist theory: Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's social roles, experience, interests, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, psychoanalysis, economics, literature, education, and philosophy. Feminist theory focuses on analyzing gender inequality. Themes explored in feminism include discrimination, objectific… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/14 06:52 PM |
| 1 | AOM "The Myth of the Alpha Male" article. Discuss.Dominance hierarchy: Dominance hierarchy arises when members of a social group interact, often aggressively, to create a ranking system. In social living groups, members are likely to compete for access to limited resources and mating opportunities. Rather than fight each time they meet, relative relationships are formed between members of the same sex. These repetitive interactions lead to the creation of a social order that is subject to change each time a dominant animal is challenged by a su… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/14 06:43 PM |
| 2 | Feminist pounce after barbershop owner makes it clear women are not allowed.Equity and gender feminism: Equity feminism and gender feminism are two kinds of feminism, first defined by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism?. She describes equity feminism as having the ideological objective of equal legal rights for men and women and gender feminism as having the objective of counteracting gender-based discrimination and patriarchic social structures in everyday social and cultural practice. Sommers is herself a strong advocate of what she cal… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/14 06:40 PM |
| 1 | A Brief History of Feminism and Why It Has Always Been WrongMarital rape: Marital rape (also known as spousal rape and rape in marriage) is non-consensual sex (ie., rape) in which the perpetrator is the victim's spouse. It is a form of partner rape, of domestic violence and of sexual abuse. Once widely condoned or ignored by law and society, marital rape is now not tolerated by many societies around the world, repudiated by international conventions and increasingly criminalized. Still, in many countries, marital rape either remains outside the law, or i… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/14 05:04 PM |
| 5 | Feminist pounce after barbershop owner makes it clear women are not allowed.Erin Pizzey: Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (born 19 February 1939) is an English family care activist and a novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges (called women's shelters in Canada and the U.S.) in the modern world, Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women ar… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/14 04:03 PM |
| 1 | Hi, I am a female, so naturally after setting fire to a house with the intention of killing my BF, his mother, and his sister, but instead kill 5 other people, I only get 4 years in prison!Gladue report: A Gladue report is a type of pre-sentencing and bail hearing report that a Canadian court can request when considering sentencing an offender of Aboriginal background under Section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code. The process derives its name from "R. v. Gladue", a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision. Interesting: R. v. Gladue | Beaver Lake Cree Nation | Lubicon Lake Indian Nation | J. Michael Bailey Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of … | /r/MensRights | 28/11/14 06:33 AM |
| 1 | Incredibly well written and insightful article by a disillusioned ex radical feminist [x-post from /r/TrueReddit]Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia: Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia is a non-fiction book by John N. Gray published in 2007. Gray was at the time the School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and in the book he further develops his critique of social progress. In recent history he looks at the New Right government of Margaret Thatcher and the neoconservative government of George W. Bush. But he also connects totalitarian… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/14 05:23 PM |
| 2 | First woman to make Virginia Beach's Police Department's SWAT sued the department for millions of dollars.. Now the officers named in the suit are suing the city, maintaining that the "discrimination" she faced, was merely due to her inability to perform her duties.SWAT: SWAT (acronym for "Special Weapons And Tactics") is a commonly used proper name for law enforcement units, which use military-style light weapons and specialized tactics in high-risk operations that fall outside of the capabilities of regular, uniformed police. "SWAT" is commonly used internationally, as a colloquial, generic term for these units. Their duties include: confronting heavily armed criminals; performing hostage rescue and counter-terrorism operations; high risk arrests; and en… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/14 11:49 AM |
| 1 | Feminists want women to be treated same as men? Sure no problem!Equal Pay Act of 1963: The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. In passing the bill, Congress stated that sex discrimination: depresses wages and living standards for employees necessary for their health and efficiency; prevents the maximum utilization of the available labor re… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 27/11/14 12:26 AM |
| 1 | This is what Canadian psychologists actually believeHebephilia: Hebephilia is the primary or exclusive adult sexual interest in pubescent individuals approximately 11-14 years old, and is one of several types of chronophilia (sexual preference for a specific physiological appearance related to age). It differs from ephebophilia, which is the primary or exclusive sexual attraction to individuals in later adolescence (generally ages 15-19), and differs from pedophilia, which is the primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (wi… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/14 08:21 PM |
| 2 | TRP and "it works"Windmill (chess): In chess, a windmill is a tactic in which a combination of discovered checks and regular checks, usually by a rook and a bishop, can win massive amounts of material. This tactic is also sometimes referred to as a see-saw. Image i Interesting: Outline of chess | Deflection (chess) | Initiative (chess) Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/11/14 07:00 PM |
| 1 | Would many red pillers be interested in an AMA with RSD Tyler after his recent debacle?Robert Berdella: Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella (January 31, 1949 – October 8, 1992) was an American serial killer in Kansas City, Missouri who raped, tortured and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987. Image i Interesting: The Collector | Kansas City Art Institute | Murder Metal | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 26/11/14 06:08 PM |
| 1 | After being on here for a while I am now scared of having sex. Any advice?Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy is a book written by David D. Burns, first published in 1980, that popularized cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Interesting: David D. Burns | The Feeling Good Handbook | Cognitive distortion Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/askTRP | 26/11/14 02:35 PM |
| 3 | The Bill Cosby rape allegations do not warrant eliminating statutes of limitations in rape casesTrial of Michael Jackson: People v. Jackson (full case name: 1133603: The People of the State of California v. Michael Joseph Jackson) was a 2005 trial involving recording artist Michael Jackson. A 13-year-old boy that Jackson had befriended named Gavin Arvizo accused him of sexual abuse. Jackson was indicted for four counts of molesting a minor, four counts of intoxicating a minor in order to molest him, one count of attempted child molestation, and one count of conspiring to hold the boy and h… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/14 05:29 AM |
| 1 | Self Improvement and MotivationsMaslow's hierarchy of needs: Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belongingness" and "love", "… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/11/14 02:08 AM |
| 1 | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleSection 1. Text of article Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Under the heading of "Equality Rights" this section states: Interesting: Natural person | Same-sex marriage in Yukon | Same-sex marriage in Ontario | Human rights in Canada Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 25/11/14 06:53 PM |
| 1 | CMV: TRP will grow in influence, although like feminism, few will call themselves RPSlutWalk: SlutWalk is a transnational movement of protest marches which began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, with subsequent rallies occurring globally. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance, and call for an end to rape culture. The rallies began after Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto Police officer, suggested that "women should avoid dressing like sluts" as a precaution against unwanted sexual attention. Image… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/11/14 06:38 PM |
| 3 | The Bill Cosby rape allegations do not warrant eliminating statutes of limitations in rape casesSection 2. Purpose of article Statute of limitations: The purpose and effect of statutes of limitations is to protect defendants. There are three reasons supporting the existence of statutes of limitations, namely: (a) a plaintiff with good causes of actions should pursue them with reasonable diligence; (b) a defendant might have lost evidence to disprove a stale claim; and (c) long dormant claims have more cruelty than justice in them (Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edition). The general rule … | /r/MensRights | 25/11/14 05:54 PM |
| 1 | After (or during) swallowing the red pill, how did your hobbies/interest change, if at all, to orient you to more of a red pill lifestyle?Operant conditioning chamber: An operant conditioning chamber (also known as the Skinner box) is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of behavior to study animal behavior. The operant conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner while he was a graduate student at Harvard University (Masters in 1930 and doctorate in 1931). It may have been inspired by Jerzy Konorski's studies. It is used to study both operant conditioning and classical conditioning. Skinner created the op… | /r/askTRP | 25/11/14 04:11 PM |
| 1 | Lena Dunham's Wikipedia page still does not reflect anything about the scandal - NOT a conspiracy after all.False accusation of rape: A false accusation of rape is the intentional reporting of a rape by an alleged victim when no rape has occurred. Studies have found that police typically classify between 1.5 and 8% of rape accusations as unfounded, unproven or false, however researchers say those determinations are often dubious. The "conventional scholarly wisdom," according to American law professor Michelle J. Anderson, is that two percent of rape complaints made to the police are false. The United… | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 08:38 PM |
| 1 | Self Preservation vs Self SacrificeEmergency workers killed in the September 11 attacks: Of the 2,977 people killed in the September 11 attacks, 414 were emergency workers in New York City who responded to the World Trade Center. This included: 341 firefighters and 2 paramedics from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY); 37 police officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD); 23 police officers from the New York City Police Department (NYPD); and 8 emergency medical technicians and param… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/11/14 02:54 PM |
| 1 | "Would You Pardon The World’s Hottest Thief?"Halo effect: The halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties. It was named by psychologist Edward Thorndike in reference to a person being perceived as having a halo. Subsequent researchers have studied it in relation to attractiveness and its bearing on the judicial and educational systems. The halo effect is a specific type of confirm… | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 02:15 PM |
| 2 | Sold-out Cosby show goes ahead, Cosby receives standing ovations despite "new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago"Section 2. Purpose of article Statute of limitations: The purpose and effect of statutes of limitations is to protect defendants. There are three reasons supporting the existence of statutes of limitations, namely: (a) a plaintiff with good causes of actions should pursue them with reasonable diligence; (b) a defendant might have lost evidence to disprove a stale claim; and (c) long dormant claims have more cruelty than justice in them (Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edition). The general rule … | /r/MensRights | 23/11/14 12:09 AM |
| 2 | Today in Finland: Woman gropes and masturbates a married man while he's sleeping - $1,800 fineSection 2. Finland of article Day-fine: In Finland, the day-fine system is used for most crimes that are punishable by way of a fine. The system has been in use since 1921. Most minor infractions are punished with a fixed petty fine (rikesakko, ordningsbot) such as minor traffic and water traffic violations, littering, and breaches of public peace. A petty fine is summarily ordered by the policeman if the suspect does not contest his guilt, but the person punished may contest the fine in a distr… | /r/MensRights | 22/11/14 08:45 PM |
| 2 | Self Preservation vs Self SacrificeKin selection: Kin selection is the evolutionary strategy that favours the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction. Kin altruism is altruistic behaviour whose evolution is driven by kin selection. Kin selection is an instance of inclusive fitness, which combines the number of offspring produced with the number an individual can produce by supporting others, such as siblings. Charles Darwin discussed the concept of kin select… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/11/14 06:46 PM |
| 1 | Why are some universally-recognized-as-bad men so romantically and sexually successful?Hybristophilia: Hybristophilia "is a paraphilia of the predatory type in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed an outrage, cheating, lying, known infidelities or crime, such as rape, murder, or armed robbery." The term is derived from the Greek word ὑβρίζειν hubrizein, meaning "to commit an outrage against someone" (ultimately derived from ὕβρις hubris "hubris"), and philo, meaning "having a… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/11/14 12:40 PM |
| 2 | The local rape culture brigade are pushing for the law to be changed to "guilty until proved innocent". They're having a demonstration today based on the 1% myth.Bayesian probability: Bayesian probability is one interpretation of the concept of probability. The Bayesian interpretation of probability can be seen as an extension of propositional logic that enables reasoning with hypotheses, i.e., the propositions whose truth or falsity is uncertain. Bayesian probability belongs to the category of evidential probabilities; to evaluate the probability of a hypothesis, the Bayesian probabilist specifies some prior probability, which is then updated in the lig… | /r/MensRights | 22/11/14 09:27 AM |
| 1 | RPers, what do you think of this post written at the time by a cis man, who has since come out as a trans woman?Section 2. Ethical value system of article Judeo-Christian: The present meaning of "Judeo-Christian" regarding ethics first appeared in print on July 27, 1939, with the phrase "the Judaeo-Christian scheme of morals" in the New English Weekly. The term gained much currency in the 1940s, promoted by groups which evolved into the National Conference of Christians and Jews, to fight antisemitism by expressing a more inclusive idea of American values rather than just Christian or Protestant. By 1952 … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/11/14 07:50 AM |
| 2 | RPers, what do you think of this post written at the time by a cis man, who has since come out as a trans woman?“Women are wonderful” effect: The “women are wonderful” effect is the phenomenon found in psychological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men. This effect reflects an emotional bias toward the female gender as a general case. The phrase was coined by Eagly & Mladinic (1994) after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign exceptionally positive traits to the female gender (males are also… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/11/14 05:57 AM |
| 1 | Call to put feminist indoctrination in schools with an "anti-sexism curriculum" that teaches (only) boys that...they're to blame for sexism?Section 1. Equity feminism of article Equity and gender feminism: Sommers describes equity feminism as an ideology rooted in classical liberalism that aims for full civil and legal equality for women. Experimental psychologist Steven Pinker expands on Sommers to write, "Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology." Sommers contends that "Most American women subscribe philosophically to the older 'Fir… | /r/MensRights | 22/11/14 03:00 AM |
| 1 | Feminist friends have been passing this one around facebook. Thought you guys may like it.Equity and gender feminism: Equity feminism and gender feminism are two kinds of feminism, first defined by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism?. She describes equity feminism as having the ideological objective of equal legal rights for men and women and gender feminism as having the objective of counteracting gender-based discrimination and patriarchic social structures in everyday social and cultural practice. Sommers is herself a strong advocate of what she cal… | /r/MensRights | 21/11/14 09:54 PM |
| 1 | Define toxic masculinity/femininity.Samira Bellil: Samira Bellil (November 24, 1972 – September 7, 2004) was a French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women. Bellil became famous in France with the publication of her autobiographical book Dans l'enfer des tournantes ('In the hell of the "tournantes" (gang-rapes)) in 2002. The book discusses the violence she and other young women endured in the predominantly Muslim immigrant outskirts of Paris, where she was repeatedly gang-raped as a teenager by gangs… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/11/14 03:41 PM |
| 1 | Woman jailed for tricking man into believing he fathered her babyMisattributed paternity: Misattributed paternity is the situation when a child’s putative father is not the child's biological father. Overall, the incidence misattributed paternity ranges is about 1-4%, though it may be considerably higher in certain populations. Genetic testing for purposes other than establishing paternity has the potential to unintentionally yield information regarding a child’s paternity. This generally occurs in two different scenarios: the first (and less complicated) occ… | /r/PussyPassDenied | 21/11/14 03:03 PM |
| 1 | Being too much of an asshole? Where to draw the line between speaking your mind and politeness?How to Win Friends and Influence People: How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide. Leon Shimkin of the publishing firm Simon & Schuster took one of the 14-week courses given by Carnegie in 1934. Shimkin persuaded Carnegie to let a stenographer take notes from the course to be revised for publication. In 1981, a new revised edition containi… | /r/askTRP | 21/11/14 01:23 PM |
| 1 | Hirsi Ali, a popular speaker against Islam's treatment of women, slams modern American feminists for their "trivial bullshit."Human trafficking in Saudi Arabia: With respect to human trafficking, Saudi Arabia was designated, together with Bolivia, Ecuador, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Burma, Jamaica, Venezuela, Cambodia, Kuwait, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, and Togo, as a Tier 3 country by the United States Department of State in its 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report required by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 on which this article was originally based. Tier 3 countries are "countries whose… | /r/MensRights | 21/11/14 05:48 AM |
| 1 | How can Men's Rights become a real political issue instead of being laughed at as a bunch of woman haters in fedoras?Section 2. Political significance of article Jester: The Royal Shakespeare Company provides historical context for the role of the fool: In ancient times, courts employed fools and by the Middle Ages the jester was a familiar figure. In Renaissance times, aristocratic households in Britain employed licensed fools or jesters, who sometimes dressed as other servants were dressed, but generally wore a motley (i.e. parti-coloured) coat, hood with ass's (i.e. donkey) ears or a red-flannel coxcomb and… | /r/MensRights | 21/11/14 05:31 AM |
| 1 | The basic problem with "pop evolutionary psychology"False equivalence: False equivalence is a logical fallacy which describes a situation where there is a logical and apparent equivalence, but when in fact there is none. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. It would be the antonym of the mathematical concept of material equivalence. A common way for this fallacy to be perpetuated is one shared trait between two subjects is assumed to show equivalence, especially in order of magnitude, when equivalence is not necessarily the … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/11/14 10:40 PM |
| 1 | Let's take action to end discrimination against men by Las Vegas nightclubs.Section 7. Nevada of article Ladies%27 night: In 2008, the Nevada Equal Rights Commission ruled in favor of a man who claimed a local gym offering free memberships to women was discriminatory. The ruling is thought to have had wide ramifications for ladies' night promotions across the state. Although the question has not been litigated in Nevada courts, two Nevada attorneys advise: "for the time being, businesses should exercise caution in utilizing gender-based pricing scheme promotions. While … | /r/MensRights | 20/11/14 08:02 PM |
| 1 | Racism/Xenophobia and TRP: RoK on how Finland is letting itself by overrun by brown peopleAshkenazi Jewish intelligence: The intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews relative to other ethnic groups has been an occasional subject of scientific controversy. A 2005 scientific paper, "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence", proposed that Ashkenazi Jews as a group inherit higher verbal and mathematical intelligence with lower spikes in spatial intelligence than other ethnic groups, on the basis of inherited diseases and the peculiar economic situation of Ashkenazi Jews in medieval Europe. Oppos… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/11/14 07:39 PM |
| -2 | My thoughts on why TRP is bad for your mindTrolley problem: The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics. The general form of the problem is this: There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track.… | /r/ExRedPill | 20/11/14 06:07 PM |
| 1 | ExRed to Purple Pill and now ExPurplePill. Didn't go Blue Pill either. I'm not any pill.Psychological manipulation: Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics. By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at another's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive. Social influence is not necessarily negative. For example, doctors can try to persuade patients to change unhealthy habits. Social influence is ge… | /r/ExRedPill | 20/11/14 05:28 PM |
| 1 | The Slut/Stud double standard is absolutely justifiedLost boys (Mormon fundamentalism): "Lost boys" is a term used for young men who have been excommunicated or pressured to leave polygynous Mormon fundamentalism groups such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). They are pressured to leave by adult men to reduce competition for wives within such sects, usually when they are between the ages of 13 and 21. Image i Interesting: Mormon fundamentalism | Human sex ratio | Religion and children Parent commenter can tog… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/11/14 02:28 PM |
| 3 | TIL: A man tried to sue Las Vegas clubs for charging women a different cover than men.Directive 2004/113/EC: The Gender Directive, officially Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services, is an directive which prohibits both direct and indirect sexual discrimination in the provision of goods and services in the European Union. As originally enacted Article 5(2) of the directive allowed member states to permit sexual discrimination in the provision of insuranc… | /r/MensRights | 20/11/14 12:24 PM |
| 1 | BP, why shouldn't I go RP?No true Scotsman: No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"). <sup>Inte… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/11/14 04:22 AM |
| 1 | All pills, what are your most controversial (on this sub or in the real world) opinions on sex, gender, attraction and relationships?NEET: A NEET or neet is a young person who is "Not in Education, Employment, or Training". The acronym NEET was first used in the United Kingdom but its use has spread to other countries including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In the United Kingdom, the classification comprises people aged between 16 and 24 (some 16-year-olds are still of compulsory school age); the subgroup of NEETs aged 16–18 is frequently of particular focus. In Japan, the classification comprises people aged between 15 and … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 10:34 PM |
| 1 | Why does Sweden have the highest rate of rape in Europe?The Gender War: The Gender War (Swedish: Könskriget) is a documentary in two parts by journalist Evin Rubar on radical feminism in Sweden and its influence on Swedish politics. It was produced by Nordisk Film and broadcast by Sveriges Television in the series Dokument inifrån on 15 and 22 May 2005. The Gender War was also part of Evin Rubar being awarded the TV award Kristallen and Sveriges Television's equality award the same year. The documentary focuses on the national organisation for women’… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 10:29 PM |
| 1 | Why does Sweden have the highest rate of rape in Europe?Swedish slave trade: The Swedish slave trade mainly occurred in the early history of Sweden when the trade of thralls (Old Norse: þræll) was one of the pillars of the Norse economy. During the raids, the Vikings often captured and enslaved militarily weaker peoples they encountered, but took the most slaves in raids of the British Isles and Slavs in Eastern Europe. Slavic thralls was the origin of the word "slave". This practice lasted in the 6th through 11th centuries until formally abolished i… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 10:24 PM |
| 1 | Do you think they're will be a radical, extremist male right movement group?Time zone: A time zone is a region that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. It is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time, so time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions. Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (for example Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/14 06:40 PM |
| 2 | How to be funny and mature at the same time?Deadpan: Deadpan is a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language. It is usually spoken in a casual, monotone, or cantankerous voice, and expresses a calm, sincere, or grave demeanor, often in spite of the ridiculousness of the subject matter. This delivery is also called dry humor or dry wit, when the intent, but not the presentation, is humorous, blunt, oblique, sarcastic, laconic, or apparently unintentional. Image i Interesting: Jane Curtin… | /r/askTRP | 19/11/14 05:49 PM |
| 1 | Old men and Tattooed womenAge disparity in sexual relationships: Age disparity in sexual relationships and sexual relationships between individuals of a significant difference in age have been documented for most of recorded history and have been regarded with a wide range of attitudes, from normalized acceptance to taboo. Concepts of these relationships and of the exact definition of a "significant" age disparity have developed over time and vary between societies, legal systems (particularly with regards to the age of … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 04:38 PM |
| 2 | Why is a ONS more satisfying than a LTR to some people?Coolidge effect: In biology and psychology, the Coolidge effect is a phenomenon seen in mammalian species whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners, even after refusing sex from prior but still available sexual partners. Image i Interesting: Calvin Coolidge | Bruce effect | Lymnaea stagnalis Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 03:51 PM |
| 1 | Why does Sweden have the highest rate of rape in Europe?Immigration and crime: Immigration and crime refers to perceived or actual relationships between crime and immigration. Interesting: Immigration to the United States | Immigration to the United States | Opposition to immigration | Sweden Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 03:09 PM |
| 2 | If we landed on the moon in 2014World population: The world population is the total number of living humans on Earth. In June 2013, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division estimated that as of 2010 [update], the world population was 6.916 billion. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the world population exceeded 7 billion on March 12, 2012. According to a separate estimate by the United Nations Population Fund, it reached this milestone on October 31, 2011. The median age of… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/14 01:05 PM |
| 1 | How many genders are there?Section 1. Summary of article A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful: In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the Neoclassical to the Romantic era. The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and the sublime, for Burke, can be understood by means of the… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 11:23 AM |
| 1 | How many genders are there?Defeminization and masculinization: Defeminization and masculinization are the processes that a fetus goes through to become a male. It has often been said that in sexual differentiation in mammals, the female is the "default" developmental pathway, in the sense that elimination of any of several gene actions necessary for formation of male genitalia leads to the development of external female genitalia (though development of functional ovaries requires effective action of several less understoo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 10:57 AM |
| 1 | All pills, what are your most controversial (on this sub or in the real world) opinions on sex, gender, attraction and relationships?Ideal type: Ideal type (German: Idealtypus), also known as the pure type, is a typological term most closely associated with antipositivist sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920). For Weber, the conduct of social science depends upon the construction of hypothetical concepts in the abstract. The "ideal type" is therefore a subjective element in social theory and research; one of many subjective elements which necessarily distinguish sociology from natural science. An ideal type is formed from charact… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 08:57 AM |
| 1 | DHS againAbuse of process: Abuse of process is a cause of action in tort arising from one party making a malicious and deliberate misuse or perversion of regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action. It is a common law intentional tort. It is to be distinguished from malicious prosecution, another type of tort that involves misuse of the public right of access to the courts. The elements of a valid cause of action for abuse of process in most common law … | /r/MensRights | 19/11/14 05:31 AM |
| 1 | The contrast between what is acceptable depending on which sex it's coming from really bums me outDUKW: The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck) is a six-wheel-drive modification of the 2-ton capacity "deuce" trucks used by the U.S. military in World War II amphibious truck, designed by a partnership under military auspices of Sparkman & Stephens and General Motors Corporation (GMC) for transporting goods and troops over land and water, and approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious attacks. Designed only to last long enough to meet the demands of combat, DUKWs were later used as tourist cr… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/14 04:17 AM |
| 1 | What are some reasonable/rational positions, ideas or legislation that run-of-the-mill feminists advocate for? Not "fringe" feminists, not "radfems", just regular every day feminists.Christina Hoff Sommers: Christina Hoff Sommers (/ˈsʌmərz/; born 1950) is an American author and former philosophy professor known for her opposition to late 20th-century feminism in contemporary American culture. Her most widely discussed books are Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. Although some critics refer to her as anti-feminist, Sommers labels herself an "equity feminist" who faults contemporary feminism for "its irrational hostil… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/14 01:56 AM |
| 1 | I want to be a RPW but the adage that men are more logical doesn't really resonate with me. I'm interested in PPD's thoughts on the topic especially any RPW if they're here.Empathizing–systemizing theory: The empathizing–systemizing (E-S) theory suggests that people may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions: empathizing (E) and systemizing (S). It measures a person's strength of interest in empathy (the ability to identify and understand the thoughts and feelings of others and to respond to these with appropriate emotions); and a person's strength of interest in systems (in terms of the drive to analyse or construct them). A system is anyt… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 01:48 AM |
| 1 | How many genders are there?Klinefelter syndrome: Klinefelter syndrome (/ˈklaɪnfɛltər/) or Klinefelter's syndrome, also known as 47,XXY or XXY, is the set of symptoms resulting from a genetic disorder in which there is at least one extra X chromosome to a standard human male karyotype, for a total of 47 chromosomes rather than the 46 found in genetically typical humans. As the resulting individual possesses at least one Y chromosome, they are typically considered genetically male, although the phenotype can be male, female… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/11/14 12:16 AM |
| 1 | Constitutional Lawyer & Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz: Campus sexual assault rules 'preclude a defense' for the accusedDue process: Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person. Typically, "Due process" means 1) Notice, generally written, but some courts have determined, in rare circumstances, other types of notice suffice. [citation needed] Notice should provide sufficient detail to fully inform the individual of the decision or activity that will have an effect on his/her rights or property or person. 2) right to grieve (that being the right… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/14 08:54 PM |
| 1 | How many genders are there?Section 6. Genetic of article XY sex-determination system: For a long time, biologists believed that the female form was the default template for the mammalian fetuses of both sexes. After the discovery of the testis-determining gene SRY, many scientists shifted to the theory that the genetic mechanism that determines a fetus to develop into a male form was initiated by the SRY gene, which was thought to be responsible for the production of testosterone and its overall effects on body and brain … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/11/14 07:20 PM |
| 1 | How many genders are there?Judith Butler: Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American continental philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory. Since 1993, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is now Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and co-director of the Program of Critical Theory. Academically, Butler is most well known for her books Gend… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/11/14 04:35 PM |
| 1 | Feminism used to be about expanding freedom. What went wrong?Woman's Christian Temperance Union: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." The WCTU was originally organized on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio, and officially declared at a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. It operated at an international level and in the cont… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/14 05:03 AM |
| 2 | Saw this on 4 Chan, thought it may belong here.SCUM Manifesto: The SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas published in 1967. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto is widely regarded as satirical, but based on legitimate philosophical and social concerns. It has been reprinted at least 10 times, translated into 13 languages, a… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/14 04:16 AM |
| 1 | Bill Cosby's attorney calls rape allegations 'decade-old' and 'discredited'Richard Alexander (exonerated convict): Richard Alexander is an Indiana man wrongfully convicted of rape and later exonerated by DNA evidence. Interesting: Overturned convictions in the United States | Forensic Files (season 7) | List of miscarriage of justice cases Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 17/11/14 10:29 PM |
| 1 | Why doesn't Lena Dunham's wikipedia page mention anything about the recent scandal?Child grooming: Child grooming comprises actions deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, to lower the child's inhibitions in order to sexually abuse the child. Child grooming may be used to lure minors into trafficking of children, illicit businesses such as child prostitution, or the production of child pornography. It is a behavior that is characteristic of paedophilia. This criminal behaviour has been proscribed in various way… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/14 09:03 PM |
| 2 | Boris Johnson on The Shirt: "It was like a scene from Mao’s cultural revolution when weeping intellectuals were forced to confess their crimes against the people."Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis) (Danish: Muhammedkrisen) began after 12 editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005. The newspaper announced that this publication was an attempt to contribute to the debate about criticism of Islam and self-censorship. Muslim groups in Denmark complained, and the iss… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/14 06:47 PM |
| 1 | Journalist and armchair MRA here. I'm doing a list on Men who have made major sacrifices or innovations for women. e.g. healthcare, innovation, policy. Please help me out guys - I will give creditGeorgios Papanikolaou: Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou; Greek: Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου; May 13, 1883 – February 19, 1962) was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear". Image i Interesting: Pap test | Giorgos Papanikolaou | Greeks Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words | /r/MensRights | 17/11/14 01:58 PM |
| 1 | Journalist and armchair MRA here. I'm doing a list on Men who have made major sacrifices or innovations for women. e.g. healthcare, innovation, policy. Please help me out guys - I will give creditIgnaz Semmelweis: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (born Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis; July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) was a Hungarian physician of German extraction now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "savior of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%–35%. Semmelweis p… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/14 12:26 PM |
| 1 | Support Dr. Matt Taylor - We are fans of your expertise and don't care what you wearMatt Taylor (scientist): Matt Taylor (born 1973 or 1972 ) is a British scientist. He is best known for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He is Project Scientist of the Rosetta mission. <sup>Interesting:</sup> <sup>List</sup> <sup>of</sup> <sup>people</sup> <sup>with</sup> <sup>surname</sup> <sup>Taylor <sup>|</sup> <sup>Matt</sup> <sup>(given<… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/14 11:23 AM |
| 1 | [Post update/movietime] The thrilling conclusion of "Why feminism is facing a backlash" or "Who wants to see a grown man cry? ;DDisparate impact: In United States anti-discrimination law, the doctrine of disparate impact holds that practices in employment, housing, or other areas may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate "adverse impact" on persons along the lines of a protected trait. Although the protected traits vary by statute, most federal civil rights laws include race, color, religion, national origin, and gender as protected traits, and some laws include disability status and ot… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/11/14 09:32 PM |
| 1 | Are feminists going to laud cuckolding as much they do today and try to ban paternity testing if the tables are turned?Parental testing: Parental testing is the use of genetic fingerprinting to determine whether two individuals have a biological parent–child relationship. A paternity test establishes genetic proof whether a man is the biological father of an individual, and a maternity test establishes whether a woman is the biological mother of an individual. Though genetic testing is the most reliable standard, older methods also exist, including ABO blood group typing, analysis of various other proteins and e… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/14 06:29 PM |
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